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Pearls at ivandom btrung 



OR 



LIFE'S TRAGEDY FROM WEDDING 
TO TOMB 



INCLUDING 



The Scientific Causes of All Diseases, Poverty, Premature 
Death and Longevity 



By C. H. PIGGOTT, A. A. I. 



Price One Dollar 

For sale only by the Author, room 4, Mulkcy Building, N. E. corner Second and Morrison Strcetf, 

up stairs, Portland, Oregon 

And Gladys L. Piggott, Chico, Butte County, California 



PORTLAND, OREGON 
1908 



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This Book is dedicated to my only daughter 
GLADYS LAVINEA PIGGOTT 

of Chlco, Butte Couny, California 



Copyrighted 1906 
By C. H. PIGGOTT 



PREFACE. 

My Author has devoted the greater portion of the leisure 
hours to the study of diseases, and the cause of diseases, and 
the rational and logical cure for the same. Primarily, he did 
it for his own satisfaction. As he progressed, however, he 
found it so fascinating, and that so little was known by the 
thinkers. Doctors, and non-thinkers, that he kept on until he 
had unraveled the cause of all diseases known to the lay public. 
He has refrained from using words and phrases pertaining to 
the Medical Science in their technical sense; preferring to use 
simple, plain and unobstructive words and phrases, conveying 
the same meaning, but better understood by the masses, to whom 
my Author has dedicated me, for their special use and benefit — 
not for the Classes. The cause of a disease once mastered, the 
key to unveil thie cure is, per se, at hand — the zenith of longev- 
ity is reached, and with it the conquest of poverty. I contain 

— — pages and aibout words, every one of which has a 

clear and distinct meaning, and when it comes to Brevity I 
glitter. I should be used as a text book, read slowly and 
repeatedly, and should be in the Public Schools. My Author 
has done this for a d'ouble purpose. First — That you may have 
to stop and think, as you go along — that you may read between 
the lines, without which T will largely fail in my purpose. You 
will find a good many things in me that are unique, new, out 
of the ordinary, and original. The leading assertions that I 
make have been proven by my Author, and that, too^ 
upon himself as the subject, and not by cruel and inhuman Vivi- 
section. He has reduced voluones into pages, so that you can 
read me in twelve hours, while it took the major part of thirty- 
five years to gather the data that I contain. 

He has touched on Poverty and Sociology, knowing full 



well that tbey are so closely related' as to be virtually insepar- 
able. He has, and' purposely too, written me in such a way 
that you cannot pick me up, read a few Knes and catch my 
meaning. You will have to read me clear through to get at 
the cause of Premature Death, and the causes of disease. To 
receive the full benefit of what I contain, you must not only 
read me, but you must HEED me, which will make me of 
priceless value to you. 

I a(m made up of suggestions, and to those who can take 
them, there is in store for them, thereafter at least, a long 
life, free from adhes, pains and diseases. My Author is a living 
advertisemient of what he teaches. He wrote me for the benefit 
of Humanity, of which he is a member in good standing. If 
you find anything herein not related to the title of this book, 
credit it up to the Author. Relating to the Classes, Pro- 
fessions and Society he has handled the NAKED TRUTH 
without gloves, unveiling the dark, weak and many unsaid and 
unwritten things relatingt to the same, believing it to be for the 
future good of all society — ^that is, taken as a whole. My 
Author does not expect to be understood by all who read me; 
he never has been understood', but by the majority — mostly 
me'mbers of the Universal Academy of Intmortals, therefore, if 
one*tenth of my readers HEED me, my Author will feel well 
repaid for his life's work, and will be contented, knowing that 
somewhere, some tikne, he will be understood, and that his 
heart will have been foundl to be on the right side of humanity. 
He only asks to be accepted as a lay member, brother, in the 
Great Brotherhood of Man, and the Fatherhood and Motherhood 
of God. 



VI 



Read me for the cause of diseases, remove the cause, and 
thereafter you will be itamune from all diseases. 

"The first physicians by debauch were made, 
Excess began and sloth sustains the trade. 
By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food; 
Toil strung their nerves, and purified their blood. 
But we their sons, a pampered race of men, 
Are dwindled down to three score years and ten. 
Better hoe in fields for health unbought 
Than fee the doctor for his nauseous draught. 
The wise for cure, on exercise depend — 
God n^ever made his laws for man toi mend." 

— Addison. 



S 



TRUTH. 

Let there be many windows in the soul, 

That all the glory of the universe 

May beautify it. Not the narrow pane 

Of one poor creed can catch the radiant rays 

That shine from countless sources. Tear away 

The blind's of superstition; let the light 

Pour through fair windows, broad as truth itself 

And light as heaven tune your ear 

To all the wordless music of the stars 

And to the voice of nature, and your heart 

Shall turn to truth and goodness as the plant 

Turns to the sun. A thousand unseen hands 

Reach down to help you to your peace-crowned heights, 

And all the forces of the firmament 

Shall fortify your strength. Be not afraid 

To thrust aside half4ruths and grasp the whole. 

— Selected. 



LIFE'S TRAGEDY. 
Two acts and two scenes. 

Act I. Scene i. 

Shifting and drifting: 
Not understood'. 

Act 2. Scene 2. 

Drifting and shifting: 
Not understood. 

— ^The Author. 
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WEDDING TO TOMB. 

A flash, a dash, a smile, a tear and dream: 

She and he. 

A morning, noon and night, a Tragedy — Eternity. 

— The Author. 

IF WE COULD KNOW. 

If we could know 

Which of us, darling, would be first to go, 
Which would be first to breast the swelling tide, 
And step alone upon the other side. 

If it were you, 

Should I walk softly, keeping death in view? 
Should I my love to you more oft express, 
Or should I grieve you, darling, any less — 
If it were you? 

If it were I, 

Should I improve the moments slipping by? 

Should I more closely follow God's great plan, 

Be filled w4th sweeter charity for man — 

If it were I? 

If we could know — 

We cannot, darling; and 'tis better so. 

I should forget, just as I do to-day, 

And walk along the same old stumbling way — 

If I could know. 

I would not know 

Which of us, darling, will be first to go. 
I only wish the space may not be long 
Between the parting and the greeting song; 
But when, or where, or how we're called to go, 
I would not know. 

— Selected. 

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MOTHER. 

Your life begins anew the wedding day. 

Mother! If you but knew pre-natal power — 

The destiny of your desires — ^tbe way 

To truth: subconscious thought — your divine dower 

E'er birth, your embryonic souls would be 

Leaders of nations: tillers of sod. 

You'd unmake heaven, hell, eternity, 

And remake worlds, mother, goddess, God! 

LABOR. 

Nature has no poor house; no place of ease 

For tired souls: no Doctors, drugs, disease. 

Every atom in her wide domain 

Labors 'till the change — it lives again, 

Is intellect and thinks and breathes — is life, 

Is law divine, ego, endless strife. 

And those that labor not, she puts to sleep 

Into her bosom, both to keep. 

But live again— 'beautify, unfold 

With ether, far above the earth, her sod, 

To bear the impress of a mam — a God. 

— The Author. 

BABYHOOD. 

In valleys high and' wildwood's drear, 
'Mong /mountain peaks, so near the clouds 
Are lilies with the dewdrops near. 
To heal: no plumes of white, or shrouds. 

'Mong lilies fair are children wild, 
Who know not drugs, bitter or sweet; 
Who quaff the dew distilled' and mild. 
And tread the earth with little bare feet. 

— The Author. 



A HEART TO HEART TALK TO THE READER ON 

DISEASES. 

All aches, pains and diseases, from childhood to the tomb^ 
are unnatural — contrary tO' the universal law — laws of the uni- 
verse. In the animal kingdom (separate and apart from the 
environments of man) we find no diseases. In the earliest dawn 
of history we find man free from disease. Men were then lead* 
ing pastoral lives. The mind is largely the master of man's 
existence. !With man's first advent on this earth was: First — 
His desire. Second^ — Thought. Third — ^Action. Fourth — 
Habit. Fifth — Character, which with memory is all he takes 
with him into destiny. Three things are necessary for the exist- 
ence of the animal kingdom on this earth. First, is air; second, 
is water, and the third, is food. Man has more intelligence than 
his four-footed kind (free in nature), and yet, with all his boasted 
intelHgence, he has degraded hiimself far below them. In the 
wilds we find no nurses, drug stores, doctors, hospitals nor little 
white coffins, and yet they derive all their sustenance, like us^ 
from Mother Earth. Nature always seeks to better and perpet* 
uate her species; there is where she glitters. No diseases, per 
se, are inherited. Therefore, all the causes of diseases must 
either be inherited, or arise from the air we breathe, water we 
drink, or the food we eat. With tman, thought and environ- 
ment have a good deal to do. 

THE WEDDING DAY. 

The wedding day is the proper place and time to lay the 
foundation to trace the origin of disease. A weak body (low 
order of vitality) is inherited, but not the disease, per se. It is 
a notorious fact that the first bom rarely survive childhood, 

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Cause: excessive co-habitation and ignorance in not knowing 
how to feed the child. All persons below a normal vitality 
(life's force) or undersized in stature, are so, either from exces* 
sive co-habitation of their parents, or from Scrofula, originally 
Syphilis, contracted by their ancestors. This disease will dis- 
appear in the seventh generation, its last stages being eczemas, 
salt rheum, etc. Nearly all mankind is tainted with this disease 
in some of its multitudinous forms of expression, classified under 
the head of Tuberculosis and Scrofula, all ,of which originate 
from the same cause. We cannot help what our parents do; we 
can and must help the weaklings. The ones with the high 
order of vitality will generally survive (unless they are murdered 
by their parents by over and irregular feeding. The remedy for 
this lies with the parents and the public schools, by controlling 
the appetites and passions of the child, beginning at the cradle. 
Keep them busy at something during their waking hours. This 
rule holds good for grown people; if they have no work, let 
them create some, or die, unless they have a hobby; that will do. 
Nature abhors a vacuum, and tries hard to perpetuate her species. 
She generally weeds out the weaklings in childhood. If any 
escape her and get over into puberty, she finishes them there, 
if they do not reach the standard. If any of the weaklings 
reach manhood (below the standard) she finishes them with 
quick consumption, or otherwise; she lulls them to sleep, takes 
them to her bosom, and without a tear veils them from our 
sight; she will endeavor to do better the next time. She is a 
kind and lovingi mother, if we only knew it. Some time, sotne 
day, we will find it out, here or there. There is no truth, nor 
harmony, outside the laws of the Universe. In man, Crankdom 
is one of the first stages of greatness, seeking to know one 
thing thoroughly. 

HEADS. As relates to heads, there are two classes of 
persons in the Universe — ^long heads and bullet heads; the for- 

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mer rule the thinking world, and the latter the comimercial world. 
Men's heads (including women's) undergo a constant change 
and shape, at any age, proportional to the quality and quantity 
of thinking they do. Greatness is in finding one's niche in 
society, and fitting one's self in that niche, whether it be a nod- 
carrier or a President. The whole aim of all the world's thinkers 
is truth, and they find it all in nature's laws. All cranks end 
up Philosophical, and a few Philosophers. Crankdom is dan- 
gerous in this: they sometimes remain too long on a straight 
line, a divergence or tangent from the straight line is necessaiy 
to round out a beautiful life. Otherwise, they are liable to 
perish in the ''Breakfast Food" stage of their existence. 

The two greatest chemical laboratories in the Universe 
are: First, the Universe itself, and second, the human stomach. 
Nature tetopers us to the conditions and environments in which 
we live. If yoti live on breakfast foods and vegetables it will be 
but a short time until you can digest nothing else. This is a 
cotmmercial age and requires a good deal of brute (animal) force 
to secure a livelihood. There are twO' classes of animals (free 
in nature), the small-stomached, cats, weasels, dogs, lions, foxes 
and tigers, which take their food in a condensed form. Eat the 
large-stomached animals — cow, deer, sheep, rabbits, goats, etc., 
after they have cropped the vegetation direct from the earth, 
and condensed the same into meat. Man, as we find him, belongs 
to the small-stomached animals, requiring the cunning and 
strength of the former class to ''eke" out an existence in this 
age. 

Man has within him all the component parts of the Uni- 
verse, therefore requiring everything that his appetite longs foi 
in order to attain and maintain good health. A meal should 
never consist of tnore than three different kinds of food, which 
should be changed at least once each day, and eaten temper- 
ately, and regularly, from childhood to the grave. People 

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(cranks) trying to live without salt, one of the component parts 
of the body, end with cancer (a degeneration of the tissue of 
the weakest part of the body), or it may be a deficiency of some- 
thing else, ending in some other organic disease. 

Viewed under a powerful microscope, man is a hideous 
monster — a steam engine with a gaseous vapor oozing from 
every pore of his body, and inside a big sewer from top to bot- 
tom. 

Every atom in the universe is a thinker — an intellectual ego. 
Only about ten per cent of the human family do any thinking 
(out of the ordinary). The doctor thinks for them physically, 
and the preacher thinks for them mentally and spiritually. No 
physician in the Universe ever cured a disease; they only assist 
nature to do it. Nature does all her own healing. She throws 
all the forces of the body to heal a cut, and after it is healed, she 
keeps pegging away to the end of life to remove the scar. If 
you over-trim? a fruit tree. Nature will kill it; trim it correctly, 
and she will heal it. Nature will take the trouble and panis 
to change the color of the birds and animals to hartionize with 
the vegetation with which they are surrounded, in order to pro- 
tect them from falling prey to their more powerful antagonists, 
to perpetuate their species, and beautify the earth. She will do 
equally as much for man. Man is a complete Universe within 
himself, and when he knows all its laws he will be a God; he will 
have equal power with God. The time and place will be at the 
Circles, and Cycles end. Our mission in this world is to over- 
come poverty and disease. Wisdom will do it; they are both 
conditions of the mind. 

Everything in the Universe, whether a crystal, lily, bird, man, 
tree or a planet, is a comm-unity family of atoimites (the doctors 
call them bacilli), male and female held in that body by the 
law of love and cohesion. Like attracts like, throughout all the 
domain of Nature. These atomites, in their various social rela- 

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tions, viewed under a microscope, powerful enough, or under 
radium light, whether they are born, perpetuate their species, 
die of old age in seconds of time, or live a hundred years, are 
loving, fighting and dying: their government is something like 
ours, and in some respects it is better. So long as there is 
harmony in these various and diverse fa|milies, there is no dis- 
ease, mentally or physically, otherwise a contrary state of facts 
exists, and as there are as many different species of atomites as 
there are things in the universe. At every breath we inhale we 
take into our lungs, blood and circulation, a variety of them 
all, and among them are those whose duty is to tear down and 
disintegrate any body where there is a lack of harmony (dis- 
ease); they thrive and grow fat on a diseased body — a rotten 
sewer, clogged and gorged in mani — is where they glitter. The 
first indication of a bad sewer is an itching of the anus. This 
is soon followed by a rotten breath, cankered mouth and sore 
throat, which means inflammation from the top to the bottom 
of the human sewer, at which time the tearing down atomites — 
atomites of death — ^begin to get in their deadly work. The 
lay public call this a cold; correctly speaking it is a bilious at- 
tack. There is not one case in a hundred w^iere a cold (?) is 
caused by exposure. This stage is always accompanied by a 
fever, which increases if the sewer is not cleansed, until the 
death atomites, by the help of outsiders, have overcome the life 
atomites, and attack the small bowels first, which, if not checked, 
ulcerate, then we have what the doctors call typhoid fever. At 
whatever stage the doctor is called, he gives the fever a differ*' 
ent name, corresponding to its intensity. This is the cause of 
all fevers that mankind ever had. The next in order is, how to 
keep the sewer clean: to avoid fevers, colds (?) and pneumonia. 
This rule is for all ages, sexes and conditions (excepting in- 
fancy), and more especially those persons who are unable to 
procure an abundance of physical exercise. Immediately on 
arising from your night's slumbers, and before dressing, as long 

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before breakfast as possible, eat or drink the following things, 
the value of which will be in the order naimed, beginning with 
the first: First, from two to five tart raw apples; or, second, 
drink one pint of butteilmilk, kept in a jug, corked tight, and 
the same shook well before drinking. This drink contains more 
medicinal qualities than any other drink known to the human 
family, and about which I will say more under the head 
of the cure of Bright's Disease; or, third, five or ten prunes, if 
dried, soak in cold^ water for twenty^four hours (any kind of 
prunes, German preferred). All prunes are heavily charged 
with iron; or fourth, five or six big white figs; or fifth, from one 
to two oranges; or sixth, from two to four ripe bananas; or 
seventh, take a good drink of hot or cold water; if delicate 
drink the former, and if young and strong, drink the latter. The 
things to do, above mentioned, should be changed weekly, and 
continued from; childhood to the grave, which will occur when 
you are over one hundred years, young. The secret of long 
life is> in eating in proportion to the amount of physical exer- 
cise we are taking. Never eat anything between meals, except* 
ing ripe fruit, and that only on an empty stomach. There is no 
animal in the Universe, excepting man, that will drink while he 
is eating; that means you, dear reader, if you do it. Every 
adult should take three pints of liquid every twelve hours, in 
some form. Better take two parts of it in fruit, the other after 
each meal, in tea, coffee or chocolate, alternately. 

Now, you have the cause of fevers (a clogged sewer) and 
the remedy to keep it pure. 

I shall now say something about DIET, cooking and what 
to eat. When you sit down to the dining table to eat, and you 
do not have a sharp appetite, you are sick. Sick people should 
not eat; they should live on cold water alone, until their appe- 
tite returns. 

No appetite! That is nature's plan of calling a halt; she 

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wants to catch up. If every one would do that there would 
be no sickness, aches, pains and diseases, from childhood to 
the grave. About one-fourth of the people we meet are dying. 
They do not know it. Everything in nature has a great and 
grand zero mark, equilibrium. Those dying people have crossed 
the mark. Nothing in nature stands still; everything is in mo- 
tion, either progressing or retrograding. The life and death atom- 
ites know that, every one of them know, that w'hen the appe- 
tite fails, they are falling below the zero mark. This is the 
time to reflect. See wherein you have transgressed a law of 
nature. It may take some years, at ten minutes per day, but 
it is a good investment. FIND THE CAUSE, if it takes you 
a lifetime; then remove the cause. THAT'S IT. Incidentally, 
you will be real ''cute" after ten or a dozen years. You will 
be quite philosophical, if not a philosopher. Then, it will be no 
trouble for you to peg along to be over a hundred years, 
YOUNG. If it was not for the churches, the doctors would 
soon be driven out of business. Eight*tenths of the non- 
church going people are being healed by other and diverse 
methods than the "Regular Orthodox Doctor;" he is falling 
greatly into disuse. Our up-to-date physicians, thank God! — and 
there are a good many of themi, who are using more common 
sense, nursing and ''Mental Therapeutics" than medicme in their 
practice. The author came in one of being a physician, if he 
had he would have been "barred" out by the "Regulars." He 
would have hired out by the year, or, as the lawyers say: "been 
retained" to ward of? diseases, teaching the cause, instead of 
the cure. I, however, realize that I should have suffered all 
that is incident to the Pioneer in every calling of life. So long 
as the people allow the Preacher and Doctor to- think for them 
there will be preachers and doctors. Up to about ten years 
ago, to be a physician was to belong to the noblest and grand- 
est profession on the earth, and in this day, if the physician be 
up to date, he has the grandest profession attainable. About 

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fifty per cent of the people require medicine yet, that is, you 
must make them think so in order to heal them. In this Rapid 
Transit, Commercial, City stage of life, surgery is a grand and 
noble calling, and will continue to be so, until the Millenium. 
Nearly all good physicians know the cause of diseases. After 
all, I do not blame thdm for not teaching the people the causes 
of disease. They would have to carry a potato masher to knock 
the patient down every time they met him to make him heed 
a suggestion given him for the betterment of his health. 1 
doubt whether more than one in ten of my readers will heed 
these suggestions, and even if that number heed them, the 
author will feel well paid for his quarter of a century research 
along these lines, and for the writing of this book. Character 
and Education are made up from suggestions, gleaned from 
lifers experiences, molded by thought into an ego, which ends 
at the ''Circles— End^Eternity." 

The vital organs of man are nothing more or less than a 
WONDERFUL CHEMICAL LABORATORY. 

Living near the earth means eating all the foods produced 
by the earth, as near as possible in their natural state. This 
huntan laboratory has to separate and disintegrate into its com- 
ponent parts all the food taken into the human stomach, ready 
to nourish and sustain the continual waste of the whole body 
to the zero tnark aforesaid. The kidneys, for their size, per- 
form the greatest and most important work of all the vital organs 
of the body. They have largely to do the separating of the 
fluids that go to make blood, which, if pure, means good health, 
and if impure the reverse. It is a fact, though not generally 
known, that the kidneys are the first to give out, simply because 
the change occurs so gradually, and nearly always painless, 
nature omitting her blessing — PAIN — her warning. Some* 
times, unless the patient is a student, it will run along for years 
without being noticed. It is a slow and insidious blood-poison- 

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ing, in the first stages, mostly from uric acid, which destroys 
the oils of the body, burns out the joint water, affects the leaders, 
muscles and cords, causing rheumatism in all its various rami- 
fications. This is followed by a lack of life's force, premature 
old age, weak sight (followed by a goggled nose), and forgetful- 
ness, showing that it attacks the brain, as the eyes are the only 
organs supplied with arteries direct from the brain, which is, 
therefore, weakened by the uric acid. 

The reason for the early giving out of the kidneys, I will 
now explain. You can separate the gluten from the starch, in 
white flour, in a cup of cold water very easily; try it; the gluten 
will settle to the bottom of the cup, and the starch will rise 
to the top. Now, take some flour, add some butter, eggs, 
sugar and soda, etc. Mix well with an egg beater, then put it 
into a cup, and separate it into its component parts. You say, 
''That is impossible," and sO' lit is; it takes a good chemist! 
Now take what you have left, put into a hot oven, bake it into 
cake or pie crust; (now separate it into its component parts. 
It takes a chemist (Genius) to do that! Now, how much of 
that stuff, daily, are you forcing into your stomach for your poor 
kidneys to do? They are not so large as your two fists! ''Oh!" 
you will say, "the liver helps!" Sure! I see your goggled 
nose at 50. ;What does that mean? You generally look for a 
cure (?) in medicine, which as a general thing has but a tem- 
porary effect, if any. The remedy lies in removing the CAUSE. 

The hair is nominally a separate organization from the 
body. It is a vegetable formation — ^that is, it sustains itself 
from the vegetable formations of the body. It will grow 
(colorless) after the body is dead. The potato in a moist stone 
cellar will grow, thrive and propagate its species without com- 
ing in direct contact with the earth. Iron is said to be the 
basis of all coloring matter, in and above the earth, and with 
the assistance of the rays of the sun gives us all the coloring 

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matter in existence, together with all the beautiful colors that 
beautify this earthly heaven of ours, all of which is made per- 
ceptible to us by the star — dust ladened atmosphere, in which 
our earth is enveloped. It follows, then, that to preserve the 
hair, at least, until very late in life, one must eat the fruit and 
vegetables that contain the most iron, or coloring matter, from 
which the little sack at the root of each hair receives its source 
of supply. Therefore, eat all the deep colored fruits and vege- 
tables to sustain the color of the hair. 

There are but four causes for premature baldness. The 
first is, patronizing the barber shops and allowing the barber 
to put all sorts and kinds of nostrums on the hair and head. 
Ninety per cent of the people, prematurely bald, belong to the 
round or Bullet-Headed class. A hat fits clear around their 
heads, shutting oflf the air and circulation from the head. That 
class of people should wear hats that touch the head only one- 
half way around. They should wear hats with double sweat 
bands, one-eighth of an inch apart, and the space filled alter- 
nately with cork. Another reason for premature baldness is 
cutting the hair short, letting it bleed to death — imitating the 
prize fighter in your way of cutting your hair, instead of the 
thinker and student. The barbers are real ''cute,'' they will 
cut your hair short, and' before you leave the chair, singe it to 
keep the hair frc^m bleeding to death. Let your hair grow long, 
like a thinker, Indian, or a woman if you do not care to be pre- 
maturely bald! Never put a drop of water (chemically an acid) 
on your head, nor soap, nor oil, nor anything else on the earth, 
from childhood to the grave, excepting a soft brush, dull comb, 
and give the head an electric sharrtpoo, as follows, to wit: Rub 
the scalp briskly, with the balls of the fingers and thumbs of 
both hands, until the scalp burns, repeat this ''tri-weekly'' until 
the end of life, and you will never have a bald pate to stow 
away in the coflfin with you. This treatment will bring the hair 

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out on at least fifty per cent of the bald heads on the earthi. 
It has been known to do it after the hair was apparently dead. 

Premature grayness is sometimes caused from grief, fright, 
or other excitement — all of which dry up the saliva glands, 
digestion ceases, hence, no coloring matter for the hair, and it 
goes back to its original color, white, and the same causes pro- 
duce what is generally termed death by a broken (?) heart. 
It is, however, merely the death of digestion. You cannot 
expect to have good health, and fret and worry, or allow your- 
self to become excited about anything; keep cool under fire — and 
you are, or the most of us are, under fire all our lives, when not 
asleep. Think good, hopeful thoughts; look on the bright side 
of Hfe; be an Optimist; be soriiething, not a Pessimist. Be tem- 
perate in everything, excepting deep breathing in the open air 
and sleep. Sleep until you awake naturally, unless you are poor- 
governed by the tap of the bell, or a mother with children of 
school age (in the winter time), or a child going to school at 
that time. If you don't belong to that class, sleep whenever 
you can. If you have kept cool under fire during the day, you 
can generally sleep well. In the event you are not sleepy at bed 
time, eat one or two slices of stale bread; that will draw the 
blood from your brain to your stomach; that means sleep. 

Man's highest state of physical perfection was attained in 
Greece, in the age of Sappho, who was a Poetess and teacher 
along those lines. I believe with her and the other Greeks 
of her time, in the highest state of physical manhood and 
womanhood attainable. 

The Smart Set in New York, and in all other large 
cities throughout the world, andi more especially in the United 
States, are doing toore along those lines, and should, too, to 
beautify man as well as the animal kingdom, in the last few 
decades, than has been done since Sappho's time. That class of 
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along the lines of Spiritual and Mental unfoldment of the whole 
animal kingdom. We all work according to our unfoldment. 
A great deal of ''Slush'' and ''Rot" has been written about this 
class of people, mostly, however, by persons who try to "Ape" 
them without success. 

HOW TO BE PLUMP AND FAT. Let the diet be 
mostly of Fats, Sugars and Oils. Consult any work on dietetics, 
for the foods belonging to these classes, as this class of foods 
is mostly digested in the bowels — that is, after they pass 
through the stomach. That class pf foods are good for DYS- 
PEPTICS, as they give the stomach a rest. Dyspeptics soon 
become cranks on dieting and eating, and if they survive that 
stage, they may recover. They have, however, either been glut- 
tons, or nature has taken their stomachs away from them, as 
the Lawyers say: "For Non-User." They have been living on 
slops, breakfast foods, or some other dne thing, straight. A 
sure cure for dyspepsia is to commit suicide by taking nothing 
else into the stomach but pure cold water; they will take the 
hint within a month, without having a hole bored into their 
skulls. 

To return to the subject of getting fat (mostly intended 
for the fair sex). In addition to what has already been said 
on this subject, eat two bananas midway between each meal, 
and two more before dropping into bed, or drink one-half pint 
of Weiss Beer (German White) with a little lunch before going 
to bed. Bathe the body not oftener than once each month; 
that is often enough for anybody, unless they are inclined to be 
over-fleshy. Over^bathing causes millions of premature deaths. 
The natural oils of the body, that ooze from a million pores, are 
for a purpose! People on any part of the earth's surface where 
it is necessary to wear clothing, should wear sheep's wool next 
to the skin, the weight thereof proportioned to the climate, and, 
unless the person is taking plenty of physical exercise, the under- 

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clothing should not be changed oftener than once each week, 
and two weeks is still better. 

The oil glands of the head lubricate the hair; that is why 
the head and hair should be left severely alone. The friction 
heretofore mentioned keeps the head and hair as clean as a 
new-born babe. The top of the head is a long ways from the 
heart, and it does not contain (much meat, which makes it a 
hard place for the heart pump to supply. There can be no 
deep thinkers aonong short-haired people. They could, how- 
ever, become Politicians, Senators and Men of Commerce, but 
not Women, Poets, Philosophers or Prophets. They would 
rank very low in the two latter classes. All Poets (Sentimental) 
are Prophets and Philosophers, some, however, only to a lim- 
ited degree. The long-haired and long-headed people do the 
thinking and writing for the rest of the world. Their Prophecy 
gives the suggestion to the Genius to invent, and the Artist to 
paint. Reader, to which class do you belong? It is a difficult 
thing for any one, excepting a healthy person, to be a true and 
genuine Lady or a Gentleman; it is so hard for a sickly person 
to act natural! Even a bullet=headed person has a good deal to 
live for. They are the masters of finance and the beautifiers 
of the earth, and a boon to those who are slaves to the tinkling 
of the factory's bell. They can cultivate their faculties of imag- 
ination and spirituality, without which life is almost a total fail- 
ure. They are, however, the salt of the earth; mainsprings of 
society. They surround themselves with the refinements of life, 
and die early of nervous prostration. Wise people enjoy the 
fruits of their labor; pity them for their great trusteeship on 
their behalf, and pity their children, too, who have to continue 
that Trusteeship. For what? What do they get out of it; out 
of life? For their board and clothes. Do the teeming mil- 
lions, who are nothing more or less than natural slaves, act- 
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should suddenly conclude that $10,000 was enough! What 
would the masses' do? They would be compelled to do just 
what nature intended that they should do, develop themselves, 
become masters of the situation. They would no longer be 
creatures of circumstances, waiting for something to turn up; 
they would turn it up themselves; become men, not slaves. 
To a limited extent we are all creatures of circumstances. The 
structural framework of the 'Tlay of Life'' is laid out for us; 
there are some things that, naturally, we are not accountable 
for — that is — ^we are played upon by the unseen forces of the 
Universe, which never leave or entirely desert us. We do, how- 
ever, attract to us forces in harmony — in touch with our de- 
sires, for which we are accountable. Society needs men and 
women of action — creatures who make their own circumstances — 
create something for themselves. Within the United States 
opportunities are within reach of everybody — opportunities to 
rise, at least, above the tinkling of the morning and evening 
bells — slaves of and to time. Humanity in general wait pa- 
tiently for something to turn up, looking for something at the 
foot of the ''rainbow'' — wanted to be, carried to wealth and 
fame, without labor, in a golden car of luxury. 

HOW TO REDUCE FLESH. Flesh is about four-fifths 
water. Fleshy people, in the first period of their fleshy stage, 
are very healthy and hearty, and can, almost, like the gold fish, 
live and thrive on water, straight. Over-flesh for a long period 
of time, means premature death. Rather than take medicine to 
reduce the flesh, take the ''Black Bottle," what the supersti- 
tious say. The Doctors prescribe for the incurables in the 
PubHc Hospitals. They mean that they will be carried out feet 
first, the following morning, after partaking of a dose out of the 
bottle. 

Reduce the daily amount of food and liquids gradually, and 
at the same time eat laxative and not the fatty foods. Do not 

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reduce the liquids below one and one-half pints in twelve 
hours. Reduce the food until you reach the desired weight, all 
the time taking plenty of exercise, and bathing — keep reduced on 
the same principle until the end of life. 

I shall now say something more about the eyes. The 
mountaineer and the hunter are extremely long-sighted, and the 
farmer somewhat less, and the city people a good deal less than 
either. The eyes focus themselves naturally to their surround- 
ings and environments, are strengthened by use, and taken 
away for non*use. The more on^ reads one sized type the 
more he can read, and the stronger the eyes become, like any 
other organs of the body, use develops them^ — that is, if he is 
an office man, lives in the city where the objects are close to 
him. All the other classes of persons, who generally read about 
one hour per day, lose their reading sight, without glasses, first 
in the order imentioned. 

Our forefathers read with 'Tallow Dips," and mostly with- 
out glasses. Seconid sight is largiely made by second environ- 
ments. Persons subjected to second siglit are generally those 
who have lived pastoral lives, until age compelled them to hover 
around home. Then they naturally focus their eyes to reading; 
therefore, it will nearly always be observed that they can read 
without glasses. Bright, artificial light is destroying our sight 
at a rapid pace. Eye glasses are a curse to humanity, except 
to persons afflicted with Scrofula, born with a defective sight. 
The moment a person puts on eye glasses nature proceeds, at 
once, to focus the eyes to the glasses. After that it is easy 
sailing for the Doctor and the optician, who have a Hfe=long 
patient. Every time a person has a "bilious spell" (ignorantly 
called a cold), the eyes are more or less affected, which drives 
many persons to the premature use of glasses. One should never 
read in a room artificially lighted, that is, with the light equally 
distributed, but with a lamp, or gas liglit, hung low down and 

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falling oni the page over the left shoulder. Outside of what has 
been heretofore said about the eyes, follow the rules heretofore 
laid down on constitutional treatment, and it will follow that 
you will ''peg'' along to the end of life without glasses. A weak 
eye indicates a weak kidney. 

EARS AND HEARING. Firecrackers, bombs and fire- 
works should forever be abolished by law all over the earth. 
All violent noises (including the din arising from boiler works 
and explosions of any kind) injure the ear. Outside of those 
things, the catarrh is the only thing that materially affects the 
ear and hearing. The ear drum Is the finest piece of ma- 
chinery in the Universe. Never put a hard substance in the 
ear. When it itches pump the wax out with the end of the 
forefinger. A dry (waxless) ear is no good and shrinks away 
around the entrance to the head, and is mostly caused by catarrh. 

CATARRH AND ITS CURE. Nine times out of ten 
catarrh is caused by gluttony. Remedy, remove the cause. If 
you lack the stamina and will power to do it, take a long pull at 
the black bottle aforesaid — fall asleep and veil yourself in your 
mother earth. When you have catarrh at all, you have it from 
the top to the bottom of your human sewer, and througjhout all 
its ramifications, including the lungs and all the other vital 
organs. 

FILES AND THEIR CURE. Piles follow in the wake 
of catarrh, causing the falling of the lower bowel, with this dif- 
ference, you rarely have piles without being constipated, or a 
feverish, inactive and filthy bowel, all of which, primarily, cause 
the protruding bowel as well as the blind piles. The former are 
caused by the same cause that causes typhoid fever (ulceration 
of the small bowels), while the blind piles are caused by the 
ulceration of the lower bowel. Both kinds of piles can be traced, 
by the aid of a powerful microscope, to millions of small worms, 

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taken into the sewer through the water and air, which find their 
natural elements in a rotten sewer. This worm scents death 
(ulcers mean mortification), and begins to change the body be- 
fore the physician gets in his deadly work with his knife, after 
which the worm of death can, with a reasonable certainty, re- 
main with the body until it returns to dust. 

In order to cure piles, remove the cause — eat laxative 
foods — and assist nature by eating plenty of red, or cayenne 
pepper, a great bowel stimoilant, and in fact, equal, if taken in 
large doses, to quinine. Either will stimulate a slumbering 
bowel, or bowels into a healthy action. Nature will do the rest, 
after the cause is removed. The death atomites rarely reach 
the ascendancy in man, so long as he pursues a fruit and vege- 
table diet, that is, where they lead. Every drop of vegetable 
and fruit juice, whether raw or cooked, should be consumed in 
the family cooking, ini some form or another, and the former, at 
least, should be eaten raw, and the latter, too, as far as possible, 
ground fine and eaten in the form/ of salads, and when cooked, 
with as little water as possible — steaming is better. The water 
in which they are cooked is of equal value with the vegetables 
in which it is cooked. Vegetables are a good filler. Every one 
should eat one full meal each day, that is, to keep the machinery 
in good order. To those living in harmony with the law, at 
"any old age" — old age is a misnomer — is only a matter of 
thought and suggestion. Nature will try as hard to remove the 
scar had in childhood at ninety as at nine, and will try as hard 
at ninety to gauge the human stomach to any kind of food as she 
will at nine. Most old persons die from a sudden change of 
habits, habits of all kinds, including eating, the quantity they eat 
and the quality. All old people of note had or have staid habits. 
There are other causes of premature death, prior to loo years — 
young; worry, intemperance and accidents. There is no remedy 
for intemperance, excepting through the parents and the school 
board (?) teachers, educating the individual (child), beginning 

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with the cradle and ending with the grave. From twenty-one to 
the grave man must be his own teacher. When he leaves school 
his education has just begun, that is, the suggestions he weaves 
into life's experiences; that is all that counts for anything; the 
schooling lays the foundation, that is all. 

The pubHc school should teach more of the causes of dis- 
eases and less anatomy; more peace and brotherly love, and 
less patriotism, (?) war, swords, muskets, uniforms with brass 
buttons and epaulets, more individuality, liberty and self-reliance 
and less ''toadyism" and dependence on soft (?) government, city 
and state jobs — including "quasi'' statesmanship — political jobs 
and politics. 

There is another important factor in the cause of diseases. 
It is the non-user of the parents in the physical development of 
their bodies (too much city life) which will in time result 
in a race of heads minus physical bodies, which with their 
small vital organs, will be unable to sustain their heads. More 
will be said under this head in the treatment for consumption. 

Man's brain is like unto, and answers the same purpose as, the 
receiving and sending instrument of the wireless telegraph, only 
of a higher and more refined order. There are, however, as 
many different grades of brains oni the earth as there are differ- 
ent people. The brain, like all other organs of the body, is 
made strong by use and taken away for non-use. The zero 
mark of our brains is at birth. We build up brains exactly 
in touch and harmony with our thoughts and desires. There 
are but few brains that can stand solitude — that are tuned to 
receive from^ the Universe — the only source, grand, high, en- 
nobling and spiritual thoughts, that are per se self-satisfying. 
They lack imagination, which in time ripens into geniuses, art- 
ists, writers, sculptors and thinkers, which classes of brains you 
cannot injure in solitude; on the contrary, they improve at a more 
rapid rate than they do in society. This class of brains improve 

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with their kind — a rarity in society. No brain ever originated a 
thought. The brain receives thought in proportion to the 
desires it attracts to it — ^just what thought harmonizes with it. 
Everything in the universe is attracted by its kind. That means 
you, dear reader. /What are you attracting to you? There is 
no record of a thought left after death, stamped or mdicated in 
the brain. If we compare the brain of a non-thinker, idiot, scien- 
tist or philosopher, the brains of the two latter classes will far out- 
weigh the two former, because the latter have worked the hard- 
est. Prophecy keeps one hundred years ahead of the sciences. 
Swedeniborg gave the world more science, by prophecy, than all 
=^ the scientists since his time. And how about Mother Shipman 
and Edward Bellamy for suggestions to and for the geniuses? 
There are one thousand to one more prophets today than there 
were in Bible times. If not, why not? We are a world of 
butchers, warriors and vivisectionists, excepting a large portion 
of the heathen (?) — Oriental vegetarians. 

Relating to health laws, government and longevity and 
supporting three hundred people to the square mile, the Orient 
can teach us our a, b, c's. Sometimes with thirty to the square 
mile, we have our hands full. The thinkers of the Christian (?) 
world are absorbing oceans of wisdom, both spiritual and mental, 
from the world of the Orient — from its life's experience, a few 
thousand years older than ours; and experiences, like cheese, 
improve with age. 

It is self-evident that if a man is rich (become rich by his 
own efforts) that he is a man of his word. Two things are 
necessary to attain wealth — credit and merit, that is, if he is em- 
ployed by another, that he will take the same interest in the 
business as though he owned it himself. Society has use for 
that class of people. Society has use for a person that it can 
use — that is useful to it. 

Every man that exist? and maintains himself, good- 

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naturedly, is a benefit to society. The diflference between a 
pessimist and am agitator is, the former tears things (ideals) 
down, just to be in rebellion, while the latter tears things down, 
but thinks he has something better to offer, and very often he 
does. The pessimist should be allowed to live — on probation. 
The same rule should apply to the ''Book Worm'* (parrot). He 
may in time be able to read something between the lines; other- 
wise his brain, by non-thought, would become as tough as a 
sow's ear — casehardened. Both the two-footed and four-footed 
animals have their parasites, and so far both have tolerated them. 
The cure for the parasite (man) is in the individual, or in the 
"Black Bottle"; the former is preferable. I have more respect 
for the man with the hoe than the man with the sword, or any 
other uniform. Every one in the Universe should die with 
his harness on his back. Be of some use to society; work 
eight hours per day should be one of the greatest pleasures of 
our lives. When a healthy person will not work at something, 
he should be taken to the "dog pound" or the fertilizing plant. 
A lazy man cumbers the earth just as much as a worker. There 
is nothing succeeds like success. Heads of families receive 
nine-tenths of their advice on how to raise children from per- 
sons who never assumed the responsibilities of parenthood. 
Parents rarely ever oflfer any advice on how to train children, 
because they have to establish a new rule for every child born. 

We notice in the sea and on the land, both in the animal 
and vegetable kingdom, that nature has wisely provided for the 
weeding out of the young (weaklings) species. She does this in 
the sea by the big fish eating the little ones, and on the land, 
sometimes the male and sometimes the female animal (free in 
nature) destroy their young, and the stronger and more cunning 
of the animals destroy the young of the weaker, as well as the 
weaker parent animals. Every animal, by nature, is provided 
with a mode of defence. Every animal in nature has its enemy, 
and every animal knows its enemy, from the lowest to the high- 

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est forms of life. This rule holds good in this commercial 
age, the Trusts being the king of all beasts. The mole has the 
most acute hearing and the strongest paws, fashioned for throw- 
ing dirt; his cute ears are first to hear the weasel (his ancient 
enemy) then with his powerful paws he throws the dirt behind 
him — fills up the hole, digs straight ahead, and baffles his wily 
pursuer. The next in order of hearing is the woodpecker. He 
listens, hears the worm grinding the wood (with his little horn 
nippers) and makes straight for him, and rarely misses him. 

Women should have equal rights with men in everything on 
the face of the earth. You can trust motherhood with makmg 
the laws, or any other old thing, where you cannot trust father- 
hood. Women are slaves in this age, and will remain so as long 
as there is so much orthodoxy. Women should have one more 
right (married women) and that is the right to say how many 
children they shall bear. They should know the better their physi- 
cal and financial condition. They should regulate the number to 
not less than four, however. The number can and should be 
regulated without infringing upon a law of nature. That can 
be done by a close study of the sexual habits and indulgences 
of the bird and animal kingdoms. They should take them as a 
guide, pattern after them, and carry a dagger and a revolver to 
protect theimselves against their husbands. 

Every person should be his own ancestor. The way to 
cure diseases is not by a change of climate, but by a change of 
habits. Spices and condiments dry up the blood; liquids in- 
crease it. The beginning of wisdom is when you begin to think 
for yourselves. Knowledge is power to overcome poverty, dis- 
ease and premature death. 

With due apology to the learned scientific (?) doctors, the 
vermiform appendix is one of the essential and very important 
organs of the body. It is the oil cup (lubricator) for the lower 
bowel; it gathers and stores the oil and exudes it at the proper 

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time. The oil is of a water color, very thin and light (weight) — 
very healing, but obnoxious to the atomites of death. Appen- 
dicitis is caused, first, by not taking oils enough into the body 
with the food, and secondly, by constipation. A passage from 
the lower bowel each day does not mean a clean bowel; a good 
full and free passage generally does mean a clean bowel. Some- 
times the excretions stick to the bowel and sometimes lodge 
near the appendix, which is first disclosed by an itching at the 
outer entrance of the lower bowel, which is caused by millions 
of small worms, heretofore described under the head of typhoid 
fever. This disease will never occur in a clean bowel, or sewer, 
which is kept so by eating laxative foods. As a temporary ex- 
pedient, however, after you have retired for the night inject at 
least a quart of tepid water, made soft with a little soap, which 
knocks the worms silly, and retain the same until morning, or so 
long as it is possible. If the dirty itching bowel is allowed to 
run long enough, sometimes years, the worms will cause piles, 
ulcers and inflammation, and if near the entrance of the appendix, 
it will open and let in some foreign substance, closely followed 
by the woi^,ms. Soon you have mortification of the appendix, or 
lower bowel, somietimes without pain, for a season, which is fol- 
lowed in time by appendicitis. The pain generally begins as 
soon as the foreign substance enters or the inflalmmation sets in, 
or it may be from invisible worms. Persons should never sit 
cross-legged, and should always protect the right groin from 
abrasions, by coming in contact with the clothing. Persons who 
take plenty of physical exercise, rarely have it. Once the ap- 
pendix is removed, you may never expect perfect health again. 
Nature never made a mistake, unless it was in man. What the 
scientists say about the appendix being a relic of the animal is 
pure and straight "tommyrot." 

No more, however, than the Darwinian theory of physical 
evolution. We inhale with every breath we breathe living atom- 
ites of every organism, animal or vegetable, in the universe, 

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from the star fish to a planet. Everything being normal, and 
occurring in the usual way, we propagate our (own) kind and 
likeness, varied in every other way a milHon times. It comes 
from a higher intelligence than ourselves. There are millions 
of planets inhabited. Prior to our advent on this earth, we were 
in an atomic form — a very simall ego. We do not know how 
much knowledge we had then. At the proper time, when a 
planet evolves into the condition for man and beast, there iS 
always a bountiful supply, changing and leaving other planets, 
that are disintegrating and going ofif into space, and they are 
glad to accept new conditions. They just come in atomatic 
ethereal ego and materialize in harmony with the conditions of 
the planet, and there you have it. There is such a thing as 
evolution and involution of the Spiritual essence of things. Man 
has evoluted the crab-apple to the Baldwin, and his natural life 
from 150 years to 40, to goggled eyes, to false teeth, 
gray hairs (premature), bald head, loss of appetite, failure to con- 
trol his appetites and passions, poverty and a thousand and one 
other diseases. The wild and untutored savage (prior to his 
advent with civilized (?) man had lived near the earth (nature), 
ate the wild crab-apple and other wild fruits and vegetables and 
meats, was never bald, stoop-shouldered (small, scrofulous), pre- 
maturely gray, had a goggled nose, had any disease, nor did he 
fail to control his appetites and passions, nor failed to live a 
hundred years (young). Sure, we are a ''howling success!'' 

The Trusts, properly controlled, are blessings in disguise. 
By their cash basis and discounts they prevent people from doing 
a thousand dollar business on a hundred dollar capital — ^^that is, 
the credit system and over-production running "riot," causing 
panics. 

If the people would do business on a cash basis, there 
would be no panics, or need of Trusts. The tariff is a local 
issue, and like the wind, it varies and follows the trend of a 

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circle. It is better, however, to have too much than not enough. 

CONSUMPTION. A consumptive tendency is the only 
part of that disease that can be inherited, large head, with a large 
frontal brain, tapering dow^n to a small and refined face, sharp 
chin, long small neck, flat, wide or narrow, thin chest, whicn 
necessarily cannot contain large vital organs, tapering down to 
the hips, large, angular hips, legs, hands and feet, neither of 
which taper. The vital organs of the body, above described, aie 
too small to sustain and nourish such large extremities, which 
without a superior knowledge of the laws of health produce pre- 
mature death by said disease. Any one finger of the human 
body is, to the experienced eye, enough to tell the amount oi life 
force contained in that body. The finger gives the shape of tlie 
body. If tapering, the body will be tapering from the shoulders 
to the feet; large neck, with tapering hands, legs, feet and toes, 
which, naturally, means a long life with lots of vitality. Theie 
are about three kinds of Consumption. I will first explam 
tuberculosis and syphilitic or scrofulous disease, which may at- 
tack any part of the body, but generally attacks the lungs. The 
cause of this disease is lack of that class of foods which con- 
tain one or more of the component parts of the body. It never, 
however, attacks the body until it has fallen below the zero 
mark. The only remedy for this disease is constitutional treat- 
ment, or follow an agricultural life, beginning near the cradle 
stage, and continuing until you are one hundred years young. 
When once attacked by this disease, keep cool. It is not neces- 
sarily fatal, more especially if taken in the first stages. The 
first thing to do is to halt! ''Right about face!'' Change all 
the habits of your life, more especially eating, but do not change 
climate. 

The second kind of consumption is consumption of the 
lungs only, without Tuberculosis. This kind is caused mostly 
by Catarrh (gluttony) generally in persons predisposed by build 

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for the disease, and is erroneously attributed to colds, but, in 
fact and in truth, it is caused by trying to keep up number nine 
feet and a twenty-two inch brain on a four inch stomach, and 
vital organs of the same caliber; trying to outdo the man with 
the order of the vital organs reversed, propagating his species 
and wasting his energy, in other and diverse ways, when, in fact, 
all his life forces should be preserved and conserved by correct 
living, that he may live out his kindergarten course on this 
earth plane. 

CONSUMPTION. The third kind is in going out like a 
candle. This may be caused by anything that lowers the vitality 
to below the zero mark. One of the first proofs that you have 
this disease is night sweats, the first one of which denotes you 
have fallen below the zero mark, or you may perspire freely m 
your waking hours without physical exercise or over-heating. 
Persons of any build are subject to this kind of consumption, re- 
gardless of age, condition or climate. The foundation of this 
disease is in over-exhaustion, physically and mentally. The 
night sweats are easily checked — face the other way — change 
every habit of your life, including the climate — get as near the 
sky as possible and stay there, until you get well, and if you 
don't get well there, bury your bones in the hills. This disease 
is, nominally, death by exhaustion, a giving out of all the organs 
of the body, at once — dying daily. It is a painless death. 
Cranks and prize-fighters are subject to this disease, the latter 
from training too low, and too often — below zero — and the for- 
mer from reducing the flesh (fat) too low or running too long 
on a straight line, without a tangent — once and a while — of diet- 
ing too long. Nature helps them to a certain stage, and then 
abandons them. 

Another strong mark of the consumptively inclined is the 
small nostril — an infallible sign — mouth breathers. This class of 
people (with a low order of vitality) have fine brains and are 

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very sensitive, and often ''glitter" intellectually — choose city 
lives instead of outdoor lives, the reverse of what they should 
do, and many die without finding out their mistake until it is 
too late. They should always breathe through their nostrils, 
and sleep with a handkerchief tied under the jaw and over the 
head. That means you, reader, whether your nose is broken or 
you breathe through your mouth — snore. Your nose is for the 
purpose of breathing — use it. If your nostril is small, do not 
wear a moustache. If large, wear one; don't ask why. Use 
your reasoning powers. Read between the lines. 

SUICIDES. From ill health. One-half of them that are 
not in the insane asylums — ^where they leave no trace of the 
cause behind them, is caused by night sweats, dreams occasioned 
by an over-heated spine (brain) which causes the loss of one 
of the greatest vital essences of life (being second to life itself) 
in the form of lewd and lascivious dreaims (termed by medical 
writers loss of manhood), which is more expressive. These 
dreams occur during the hours of sleep. Persons committing 
suicide under these conditions, rarely, if ever, divulge the cause, 
leaving that for the dear ones to guess — who, owing to their 
ignorance of the matter, are rarely able so to do, generally 
attributing the cause to ill health. Every person should live 
for the purpose and with the object of benefiting society as a 
whole. The cause of every premature death should be discov- 
ered, and that, too, by those near and dear to them (by post 
mortem, or otherwise) for the benefit of the living. The dead (?) 
have nothing to lose by it. Any person in the Universe (that 
means you, dear reader) that sleeps with one particle of cloth- 
ing more under him than over hijm (unless he is a 
child, unaccountable) hereafter, should be beaten with a stuffed 
club until he promised that he and his should exactly 
equalize the amount of clothing he has over and under him 
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ural life. Every feather bed, wool mattress or bed tick of any 
kind should be consigned to the flames, and the penalty for 
manufacturing either should be the ''Black Bottle," and the 
same penalty for any person hereafter who shall wantonly and 
knowingly (with malice aforethought) sleep on anything ex- 
cepting a fine woven wire mattress, with the clothing on same 
equalized, as aforesaid. Every one should have a thermometer 
in his room Let in as much air as possible and gauge the 
clothing to just the amount necessary for sleep and no more; 
change the amount, above and below, to harmonize with the 
temperature of the sleeping room. A better plan is to have 
one blanket less above until you feel the need of it, when you can 
pull it up from the foot, where it should be kept for just such an 
emergency. The body requires more clothing in the latter 
part of the sleeping hours than in the former. 

OLD MEN VS. YOUNG WIVES. If an old man (who, 
is a thinker) should marry a young wife, he would, and should^ 
first buy him a looking glass (small one will do) to see himself 
die. 

A young man who cannot live without a woman (sex- 
ually) should receive from society a painless death. If a man 
cannot live without cohabitation before marriage, he can not^ 
nor will not, after marriage; therefore, he is not fit to marry or 
associate with the brute creation. He, too, should die by an 
anaesthetic. There is only one proper remedy for the ''rapist'^ 
of either sex, whether by allurement or force, married or single, 
and that is to unsex the individual. This should be statutory. 
Nearly all the raping going on now is conducted under the 
sacred (?) banner of marriage. The statute does not even, 
directly, make it a ground for divorce; but, indirectly, under the 
head of cruel and inhuman treatment, it does. Until parents 
or married people learn that love is wholly unselfish, and learn 
to control their passions, at least, on an equality with the four- 

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legged, animal kingdoim, they may never expect to wholly rid 
themselves of our ancestorial disease Scrofula in all its various 
ramifications and forms, which constitute about three-fourths of 
the diseases of the human family. About eight-tenths of this 
trouble may be attributed to the male sex. Primarily, however, 
the origin of this disease may be traced to our ancestors, their 
excessive cohabitation. The remedy lies in every man being 
his own ancestor — that is, controlling his appetites and pas- 
sions, per se, make thinking along some original line the lead- 
ing trait of his life. Cultivate something besides his animal 
passions, which will in time become a part and parcel of him- 
self (character), all he takes with him throughout the eons of 
eternity. 

PARENTAL CHILD MURDER. Is caused largely by 
over-sexual indulgences. The husband will often sanction it for 
the same purpose, that is, for the same purpose that the male 
(four-footed) animal destroys its young. There is too much 
child murder in society. Society will hang the young mother — 
incidentally, anyone else — who puts out of the way, or out of its 
misery, one doomed to want and suffering, if she takes the life 
of her offspring, whether cute or a monstrosity, or any other old 
person, whatever their condition may be financially, physically 
or mentally; all of which I beHeve to be correct. The judge's 
wife, and the wife of the prosecuting attorney, that condemns 
the young mother (or incidentally, anybody else), may be guilty 
of a half dozen child murders, before birth, and society is dumb 
about all under the guise of the great marriage certificate. 
Strange! passing strange!! All the human stomachs in the uni- 
verse are either acid or alkaloid; the former class should live 
in an alkaloid country, the latter should not. 

There are two classes of old (young) people, between fifty 
and one hundred. The old are those who have wasted their life 
forces, and they look it, every inch, in body, soul and mind; 

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and the other class, who have preserved and conserved their life 
forces, are young, beautiful and are possessed of all the charms 
of their youth, buoyancy, health and naturalness, by right think- 
ing they have built up and added to the thought — brain cells — 
which in turn have been moulded into their character, which 
finds on this earth all the heaven they aspire to. A heaven to 
that class of people, without birds, animals, mountains, rocks, 
hills and hujmanity, of which they are a part, in which they can 
expatiate, radiate and enlarge by inspiring others with hope and 
day dreams would be a hell to them; while the other class pos- 
sibly might for a season be satisfied with the orthodox heaven 
(they think so), but they would soon grow weary of it. The 
heaven you find here will be the same as you find there. 

CHRISTIAN CHARITY AND MERCY. It is consid- 
ered just the proper thing if a person is blown up in a powder 
magazine, resulting in loss of legs, arms and sight, to exhaust 
every effort known to modern surgery to restore him to his 
normal condition, as near, at least, as the conditions will admic. 
All of which I think is proper and correct. What does society 
do with the pet cow or horse, when they have passed their 
age of usefulness, or meet with a severe accident? Shoot the 
horse? If there is a horse cannery in sight! Or beef the pet 
cow. Ye Gods! This is orthodox, but is it right? In some 
of the older civilized (?) Christianized (?) countries butchers dis- 
play their, or their neighbors', pet dogs and cats, dressed ready 
for the oven, and very often, too, in extreme cases the flesh 
of human beings are put on sale in and under the guise of pork. 
This course, however, only in the countries classed as Occi- 
dental — Christian; while the countries classed as the Orient 
(Heathen) (?) millions of people who would not, for their life, 
kill an animal of any description, largely vegetarians and fruit- 
arians. This to the thinker means so much. 

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include the animal kingdom. You have nothing to fear from 
the person who will take care of the pet dog, cat, horse or cow 
until they die a natural death; they are safe on either side of 
life. If you are too poor to do this, turn the pets out on the 
range; let them take their chances with the other animals (free 
in nature), where they will generally live and thrive and die of 
old age. Do with them just as you would wish to be done by, 
providing you were the pet. Reverse the order, or if they should 
be injured, place yourself in their position — deeds instead of 
creeds. The more knowledge I get of the inner workings of 
society, the better I like the society of birds and the four-footed 
animals. The great man starts in by studying the atom, then 
himself. When he knows all about himself, he will know all 
about the laws of the universe. It may take millions or eons of 
years, some time, somewhere, he will be able to learn and assist 
in the workings of the great Milky Way. The slow and meas- 
ured swing of the Pleiades, and solve the other mysteries of the 
Universe of God. Nature changes life, but never destroys it. 
All is life, one-half of which goes to sustain the other half the 
ratio of each being about evenly balanced. We all find our 
equilibrium, somewhere, some time. This life is only a kinder- 
garten, where we learn our a, b, c's. Mysteries disappear when 
we once understand them. Once a thinker — a thinker through- 
out the domain of eternity. A thinker must and should make 
or leave a record of the results of his thinking for the benefit of 
his fellow man who is too lazy and indolent to think or reason. 
A thinker should give out something, as he goes along. Tlie 
more he gives out the more he receives. He will find one in 
ten thousand that understands him a Httle, else he would not 
receive but little. A genius that invents one invention can in- 
vent one hundred more; it is the same with the man who 
writes a book; he may not have time — on this side of life — to do 
it. It's no trouble, after you have built up your brain cells for 
a certain purpose to accomplish that purpose. 

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It is all in getting the instrument tuned; the universe will 
furnish the music. Man can be what he desires, a wood- 
spHtter or an artist. Choose something, master it or die. There 
is one hundred things to do within reach of your hands; it mat- 
ters not where you are. Don't wait for something to turn up, 
turn it up yourself. Master your circumstances, don't be a 
slave to them. The world is full of suggestions, waiting for 
some one to accept them; the only way to rise above the clod 
is to accept them. There is no room in the world for creatures 
of circumstances. A man in Nome, Alaska, slept cold, all win- 
ter long with two dozen newspapers in his tent. Think of il! 
It only needed a half dozen of them to keep him warm; the 
suggestion was all he wanted. Two thicknesses of paper is as 
good as a woolen blanket. 

The roar of thunder or the forest fire is caused by nature 
rushing in the air, to fill the vacuum caused by the burning out 
of the oxygen. The atmosphere in its normal condition is noise- 
less, and in a perfect equilibrium, like the ocean below the 
combers and the waves. If the atmosphere was perfectly quiet 
the ocean would be as calm as a mill pond. If the moon causes 
the tides, it also agitates the earth's atmosphere, which in turn 
agitates the ocean. Throw a pebble in a calm ocean, and it will 
agitate it from shore to shore. The earth's atmosphere is anal- 
ogous. Speak and you agitate all the earth's atmosphere, which 
with some change, reaches throughout all the limitless regions 
of space. All the air extraneous to the planets is ethereal or 
radiomatic; the farther from the planet, the heavier charged. 
The tnountain top is about as high as we can go to prove it. 
The ether, with which the air is more or less charged, is the con- 
veyor of all sound, making possible the wireless telegraph, which 
is all caused by the agitation of the earth's atmosphere. Now, 
if we could rise high enough, time and space would be practically 
annihilated, and if we could remain long enough for nature to 
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convey the sound to any planet, at least, in our system. We are 
sustaining ourselves, and the earth is being replenished by and 
in the same great ocean of atmosphere as the people of other 
planets, breathing more or less of the same air. 

CREEDS. My Creed is elastic. The Creedists tell us that 
we are the sons of God; that God is our father; they are silent 
about the motherhood of God! I don't want any creed that 
has nO' motherhood in it. If there is a Fatherhood of God, there 
is a Motherhood of God! I reserve the right to change my 
creed at any moment. Show me the truth and I am with you; 
if you are honestly seeking for the truth, we are akin. It never 
appealed to my reason that our earth was the only planet in- 
habited. That it was the whole thing in the system of universes. 
Some time, somewhere we will surely understand! The atmos- 
phere is as full of thoughts as an tgg is full of meat. Thoughts 
too, agitate the ether atmosphere, and will go on until they 
reach a receptive brain; any brain that is attuned to the thought, 
high or low. If a thought, good or bad, is sent to a person they 
will receive it somewhere, some time. The brain that sends 
it is the sending instrument (objective), and the brain that re- 
ceives it the receiving instrument (subjective), and we are all 
on the wire, if our sub-conscious (key) mind is open. We can 
receive the message, good or bad. This is the mental telephone 
and telegraph. 

BRIGHT'S DISEASE. This is the third and last kidney 
disease, as hereinbefore stated. Sometimes the kidney wastes 
so gradually that it can only be known by the gradual decline of 
all the organs (vital) of the body at once; to the lay members 
of society it would seem to be a normal death, but, in fact, it is 
a premature death, generally occurring from forty-five to sixty. 

DIABETES. This is the second stage of kidney trouble, 
known by the excessive thirst of the person affected — nature's 

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warning that the kidney is passing beyond her reach for the 
patient to call a halt! Live in harmony, instead of disharmony, 
with the law. The sugars of the body in this disease are forced 
into the blood — through the urine — followed by dry saliva glands 
(which lay underneath the tongue) and fever. All persons are 
subject to a disorganization of the kidneys (without thirst), which 
is caused by fine (?) cooking mixed with a little worry. This is 
sometimes taken for Bright's Disease or diabetes (by persons 
ignorant of the subject), who examine the sediment in their 
urine, in the form of brick dust, etc., which is not dangerous^ 
and will soon disappear, with a change of diet and thinking. 
Otherwise, however, it will pass on to diabetes, which in turn 
will be followed by Bright's Disease, after which the kidney be- 
comes virtually ''no good,'' the whole inner lining being coated 
with a greenish scum. The doctors, so far, seem to overlook 
this fact in their post mortem examinations. They call it a 
shriveled kidney, and, as yet, they are unable to cure this dis- 
ease. Now, if they, too, had noticed this green scum, they, 
as well as the discoverer of the remedy that I am about to record 
herein would have discovered a remedy for this dread disease. 
This remedy has been used by a family of Spanish physicians, 
handed down from father to son for nearly three hundred years. 
This relmedy cures nothing; it removes the green scum; nature 
does the rest. That is, if you assist her with a stricter regulation 
of diet for at least one year. Eat no food that contains any 
sugar or starch (formula may be found in any reputable work on 
dietetics). The first indication of this disease is albumen in the 
urine, that is, a slimy light cloudy substance. Let some of the 
urine stand over night in a clean glass bottle. In the morning 
shake it a little, and you will see the cloud arise from the bottom 
of the bottle to the top. The urine is odorless, even if allowed 
to stand five or six days, which will be the reverse with healthy 
urine. In this disease the flesh becomes flabby, with dark 
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any part of the body, and the depression will be slow about 
fining up. I have cured quite a number of prominent people 
of this disease, and that, too, after they had been given up by 
reputable physicians, one-half of whom were thankful for the 
same; the other half thought they had conferred a great privilege 
on me in allowing me to cure them, and that, too, for just the 
cost of the medicine. I have kept this formula a secret, since I 
obtained it in 1898, while on a trip to the borders of Southern 
California and Mexico, expecting to have it patented. I have, 
however, prospered in other ways, and now feel it my duty to 
dedicate it to humanity. It, with the diet aforesaid, will cure 
any case of Bright's Disease, providing the patient has not lost 
his feet and legs — bed ridden. This stage, however, rarely lasts 
but a short time. The over-feeder — -over-fat person — with short 
thick neck and bullet head, is subject to this disease; all drop- 
sical diseases follow in its wake. Persons who have read the 
former part of this work (and heed what they have read) need 
never have this disease, or incidentally, any other disease, here- 
tofore mentioned. The formula is as follows, to wit: One ounce 
of the oil of Organum; one-fourth ounce of the oil of Hemlock; 
one-fourth ounce of the oil of Sassafras; one-half ounce of the 
oil of Anis; mix with one pint of Alcohol; dose one-half tea- 
spoonful, three times per day. Take in sweetened water. This 
with the dieting, aforesaid, will do the work. The only reward 
I ask for, and expect, for giving this formula to the world — 
that is, from the medical fraternity — is due credit for its merits 
and its use. I am willing they should have the profits, pro- 
viding they give me credit with the gift. While I am not the 
discoverer, yet I could have let the secret die (?) with me. 

CRIMINOLOGY. It is a fact but very little known that 
the United States Government at Washington, D. C, is main- 
taining a department of this science. And it is a fact that this 
department is doing a glorious work for humanity now, and is 

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laying the foundation for a greater work in the future. Only- 
thinking people take any interest in this department, and they 
should rise and make their power felt, through Congress, in hav- 
ing the appropriation increased fourfold the present amount. 
This science is one of the most fascinating and useful studies that 
the student and thinker can engage in, and includes in its range 
of research idiocy, genius, criminology and insanity. In passing 
I shall only touch upon the high places of this subject, while 
later on in this work I shall be more specific on every subject 
heretofore and hereafter treated prior to the REiTROSFEC- 
TION. Genius and insanity are twins. Nature never ceases to 
better her species (one of which is man) physically and men- 
tally, and the only mistake it ever made was in man! Her high- 
est type of manhood is in Genius, however. She sometimes 
goes a hair's breadth too far, and the result is insanity. Nature 
never allows the loins of a genius to produce a genius. She calls 
a halt; she is afraid to go any farther along that line — in the same 
stock. Technically speaking, we are all insane; insane persons 
do not admit their insanity. Viewed from the standpoint of 
the lay public, all persons out of the ordinary — genmses, poets, 
inventors and investigators are cranks or insane — not commer- 
cial — money worshippers. The "Plugs" try to silence a great 
man, one who is not a slave to custom, does and says things 
out of the ordinary by calling him a crank, until they have un- 
folded a little themselves. I am always anxious to meet a man 
or a woman whom the dear public call a crank and an illusionist, 
or an agitator. They are so closely related to genius. Natural 
insanity (non-sane mind) is inherited (per se), and a tendency 
to the same is inherited. This class of insanity is closely related 
to idiocy (an unbalanced brain), not a vacancy, and is largely 
caused from scrofulous parents. There are many kinds of un- 
natural insanity, among them being insanity caused by gluttony — 
high living — causing the breaking of a large number of blood 
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a large blood vessel would cause paralysis. Another cause is 
thinking too long and too arduous on any one subject (over- 
develop the brain on any one point) to the exclusion of the re- 
mainder of the brain. If, however, they hit a tangent without 
going too far, they may end up a genius. Too much solitude 
for the undeveloped brain will also bring on insanity. Parental 
causes figure in this disease (?) — marriage of people of the same 
temperament. They rarely have children at all, and when they 
do they are not very cute, to say the least. Intermarrying — 
marrying in the blood — is another cause of insanity. Persons 
in selecting a mate for life should be allowed to make their own 
selection, and if they are possessed of common sense they will 
select their opposites, in complexion, size and temperament. 
The result will be handsome, bright and intelligent children. 
Two tall or short persons should never marry. If they do the 
issue will be dwarfish or giants, the latter doing but very little 
harm in boys, but my heart goes out in sympathy for the very 
tall girl. If she marries at all, it is generally with a ''whiffet,'' 
which is far preferable, to the reverse for her. On both sides 
of the house the stock should be looked into. Two fleshy 
people from families that are naturally fat should never marry. 
Such unions generally result in degenerate children — children 
with a low order of vitality. Over-flesh, in time, becomes a 
disease, and eight times out of ten ends in premature death. 
Neither should two lean families intermarry, nor two bullet- 
headed families; nor two long-headed families. No extremes of 
the same kind should intermarry; neither should a ''plug'' (non- 
thinker) intermarry with a thinker. Each should seek their 
opposites, in every respect, excepting as relates to their social 
and financial positions in life. 

FOOL-KILLERS. In the early days of kings, each king 
had or was allowed by the state a fool or jester, and he was 
generally the smartest man in the kingdom, and always cuter 

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than the king himself. Now, however, every one thousand, 
people on the earth (some communities require two) should 
elect, by popular vote, a fool killer, whose duties, within the 
jurisdiction (bailiwick) should be to have the power (per se) to 
kill or execute, as he may see fit, not to exceed fifty per cent of 
the people in his bailiwick, aforesaid. His first move should be 
to kill every young" girl under the age of eighteen seen in public 
with any person other than a blood relative, chaperon or alone, 
followed by the im^mediate death of the parents, who allowed the 
awful transgression. His next duties should be to burn at stake 
or hang to a telegraph pole, anything that wears trousers, that 
will stand on a public street, or any other public place, and make 
any remark whatsoever, good, bad or indifferent, about any 
woman of any religion, race, kind, quality or color, or in fact, 
any living creature that wears petticoats. His next duties should 
be to crack the skull of any person of either sex, who will spread 
themselves out enough to cover two seats in a street car, or 
occupy a space with packages when other people are standing; 
a man (women never do this) who will stand on the plat- 
form of a street car (when he is not smoking — your Author in- 
dulges in the noted Indian weed) and forces ladies to rim the 
gauntlet to get aboard of a car, a man or men that will not stop 
a fight between two boys, or a man that will not run from a 
fight when or where guns might be brought into play. He 
should have the power to flog, on the bare back, with a cat-o'- 
nine-tails, parents of either sex who use any physical punish- 
ment whatever (only Puritans and orthodox people do this) in 
the training and raising of their children. All this should be 
statutory, and for the second offence the children should be 
taken away from them and turned over to thinkers — noncon- 
formists, Creedists, Christian Scientists or Spiritualists, who be- 
lieve in rearing their children in an atmosphere of love, so that 
when they leave the parental roof it is with love and reverence 
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throughout the eons of eternity. Puritanism laid the foundation 
of flogging, and Puritanism is now dead, and in another decade 
flogging will be dead! The fool killer aforesaid should admin- 
ister a heavy blow to the cocoanut of every non-thinker (one who 
allows the preacher and the doctor to think for him), and all per- 
sons who are looking off a long distance for something to do — 
a place to get rich. Also, the same punishiment for persons whom 
you meet who with their opening remark refer to the weather 
or your health. The Pessimist (unless he is an Agitator, has 
something better to ofifer); a male of any age whose mind runs 
on women; a man or woman (I should have left the woman out) 
who does not marry or a man that has raised a family and offers 
to marry the second time, and he (the fool killer) should have 
the power to maroon these latter classes on a lonely uninhabited 
island somewhere in the South Seas (with regret, I am compelled 
to add the fair sex to these latter classes). I think, however, in 
solitude they would soon see the error of their way and the 
justice of the banishment. 

Rapists, libertines and women of easy virtue should all be 
unsexed (sterilized). This should be statutory and out of the 
jurisdiction of the fool killer. The fool killer should, however, 
have power, with the assistance of a jury composed of two phil- 
osophers, two thinkers, one plug (non-thinker), one preacher and 
one doctor, and even then the fool-killer should be sexless (eun- 
uch)and should be ex-ofificio chairman of the jury, with the power 
to administer immediate death (in the event he believes the jury 
to have been bribd)to any person of either sex who arc consump- 
tive or consumptively inclined (tainted with it in any way) scrof- 
ulous or a weakling (mentally or physically), or one tainted with 
any disease whatever, that marry, or even offer to marry — the 
trial should take place in open court, and all parties should be 
deprived of the benefit of the clergy and counsel. The fool 
killer should have the power to hang, with a rope made from his 
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been addicted to the use of whisky, opium, or any other drug 
habit, to the extent that he has become a weakHng, mentally 
and physically. 

Society, both in England and America, is short on eunuchs^ 
while the Orient ''glitters" with them; we'll come to it after a 
while. We are new, the dust sticks to us yet. A few hundred 
years will change things in that respect. 

BIOLOGY— UNIVERSE. Did the Universe have a be- 
ginning? We cannot conceive of a beginning to the Universe — 
that is, taken as a whole. We can and do contemplate a begin- 
ning to some part of the great universe, and believe that it is 
being made as much to-day as during any part of eternity (which 
is now). The processes of growth are in all stages, from the 
infant to old age, so to speak, and all growth and births of 
planets or men can be traced to the ethereal cosmic fire mists, 
which nominally fill all space, from which all are evolved. We 
are not certain of our beginning, nor of what went before, nor 
the origin of the fire mist, which contains life in all its varied 
forms. 

In the Universe are countless millions of planets (inhabited), 
each group representing a solar system like our own, held by gra- 
vitation in the vast spaces ; they are mutually related yet independ- 
ent. These systems have birth, grow old, change, disintegrate, 
go off into space and new ones are taken up from the remains by 
the great Nebular, Milky Way and whirled and churned into 
new planets and systems, and always retaining a perfect equili- 
brium ; all of which is too vast for the human mind, on this side of 
life at least, to conceive. The eternal now is what should 
interest us here. The past, what we have not lost! (lost by 
shifting and drifting) is history. We can only improve the 
present moment. Reminiscences are dangerous, too suggestive 
of old age. To many, but the number is growing less, the future 
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life; they have not been born again (not unfolded — not developed 
to that conscious state of mind wherein they feel, know and 
understand that the real beginning of Hfe is, after the change 
called death) those persons will find some solace in the (Rubai- 
yat) translated fromi the Persian, and Sir William Burton's 
''Kasidah'' (Poem) from which the following is an extract: 

Do what thy manhood bids thee do; 
Frojm none but self expect applause. 
He noblest lives and noblest dies 
Who makes and keeps his self-made laws. 
All other life is living death, a world 
Where none but phantoms dwell, 
A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, 
A tinkling of the camel — bell. 

However, if Brother Burton had had the perusal of the i6 
volumes published by the London (England) Society of Psychic 
Research, after twenty years of investigation, and that, too, 
by such thinkers, investigators and scientists as Frederick W. H. 
Myers, Sir Wm. Crooks, Alfred Russell Wallace and many 
others of the brightest brains of Germany, France and the United 
States too numerous to mention, who compose this great psycho- 
logical Society of Research, he would, without doubt, have been 
a believer in the continuity of life. This society expended over 
a million dollars during their search for the truth relating to 
the continuity of life, and as a result of said investigation, the 
Society acknowledged the duality of man before and after the 
change called death, and that an intelligent Ego exists after the 
change called death, and can and does under the proper con- 
ditions (of law and harmony) communicate with the denizens of 
this earth sphere. 

These sixteen volumes, aforesaid, giving the exact verified 
facts of the said research, have been in existence for little more 

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than half of a decade, and are only obtainable in the large lib- 
raries of the world, and from which sprung all the isms of 
religion and healing that have sprung up in the last ten years^ 
that is slowly and surely undermining the orthodox creeds. For 
centuries the pew has bowed and knuckled down to the pulpit, 
but now the order is being rapidly reversed: the pulpit is ''toady- 
ing'' to the pew. Pew (people) are beginning to thmk and rea- 
son for themselves (use their own brains), resulting in a longer 
life (saves nature the trouble of putting them back to sleep 
(death) (?) for non-user of their brains. And in another decade 
the pew will choose from the rank and file of the new allied 
religions of deed (extraneous of the orthodox creeds), a religion 
of deeds pure and straight — minus creeds, which will occupy 
all the pulpits of the Christian churches in Christendom. 

And they will be occupied for the general good of humanity, 
here and now, and that, too, with Mediuims (the only way alleged 
in the Bible that God communicated with mortals on this mun- 
dane sphere) who will give and receive messages from those once 
occupying this earth; healers, including Christian Scientists, wiiD 
will heal the congregation (Sunday will be a day set apart for 
that purpose) and philosophers who will teach the philosophy 
of life (t|;ie causes of disease and poverty); this will be the mil- 
lenium! Every individual in the universe is, or should be, inter- 
ested in this subject. One-half hour per day will work wonders 
with the individual, and that, too, in less than ten years. It is so 
hard for us to uneducate our past — shake ofif early teachings, 
environments and creeds; preachers (offsprings of priests) all 
forbid investigations along these lines, the penalty being excom- 
munication (calling in your pass to heaven). They dismiss in- 
terrogatories on these subjects by saying: ''They are the works 
of the devir working through witchcraft on witches, etc. Any 
kind of old continuity of life is good enough for the thinker. 
Any kind of an old ghost (genuine) proves the continuity of life, 

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whether it appears through a witch (medium) who attracts to her 
evil earth bound spirits, while through a pure high-minded Spirit- 
ual Medium, would come messages from a high source — from 
messengers emanating from Divinity (Angels) who have once 
occupied this or some other sphere of intelligence. In a man- 
ner, if one survives the change (called death) we all do, with 
this change; that unless a person has arrived at a state of 
consciousness that conceives and believes in an immortal state, 
it takes them from one hundred to one thousand years, after 
the change, before they actually find out they are dead (?). We 
are surrounded by dead (?), unborn, unconscious people here and 
now — see them every day. The change don't help them, per se, 
it only gives them greater opportunities. There are probably one 
hundred thousand people in the United States alone (fifty-three 
years ago there were three) who are blessed with clairaudience 
(clear hearing) and clairvoyance (clear seeing) who communicate 
direct with their dear ones (called dead by the orthodox; they 
(the orthodox) silences and answers all interrogatories relating 
to the subject by looking wise and stating that it is all the 
works of the devil. No doubt the Mediums think with Mary 
McLane: ''Oh, good Devil!'' And she was a great writer, too, 
because she wrote what she thought, hewed to the Hne — let the 
good work go on until all the world are mediums. 

The creedists tell us that about three-fourths of the people 
on this earth (about that many dififer from them) are on the suie 
and safe road to hell (the Devil). Fathers, all things being 
equal, advise their sons to join and aflfiliate with the predominat- 
ing political party. The Devil is ''boss." Why not follow him? 
In a Republic the majority rules; the minority, like the fair sex, 
are supposed to keep silent in politics. The Devil must be quite 
popular, quite a decent fellow. If I ever reach the orthodox 
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not resist the temptation of going prospecting (coming from this 
commercial age) that is, of course, for gold. 

I would tire of that in a day or two. I would long for the 
forests and streams, and for my dearly beloved pet animals and 
birds. Oh, I would long for a change, any kind of an old change 
would be better than no change at all. And, oh! if I should come 
to knowledge in the flare and glitter of worlds — that little bare 
feet, chubby hands, dimpled cheeks, flaxen hair, and the mothci 
who had cherished, nourished and guided those little feet in tHe 
path of right and duty, was absent! That, dear reader, would 
be all the hell we could stand. We are all shifting and drifting — 
not understood. I love earth's heaven! It's heaven to me to 
help make it — just for myself and all the rest of mankind — and 
if they or I do not enjoy it here, will we enjoy it there? Give us 
Deeds, minus Creeds. The more devil a person has within him 
the more he believes in a devil; the more good they have withm 
them, the more good (God) they have within them; the more 
they have within them of either one, the stronger is their belief in 
that one; both of which, including poverty and riches, are merely 
conditions of the mind — moulded by desire for gold-glittering 
gold! The quality of brain cells that we build up in this life 
depends upon the quality of our thoug;hts. Our faces are 
the true pictures of our desires, emotions, memory, character 
and soul — all we take with us to fill our niche in the 
cloudless dome of eternity. The orthodox tell us that the law 
of civil liberty has been obliterated in heaven (like it was before 
the adoption of the great Magna Charta (Bill of Civil Rights) in 
England (see Blackstone) — that is, heaven is a hard place to get 
into and almost impossible to get out of; if we could not return 
to earth, at least once in a while, that would be hell to most 
of us. 

STUDENTS, INVESTIGAfTORS AND THINKERS, 
wishing to feel and know something of life and immortaHty, 

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should read ''Brann's Iconoclast'' (a masterpiece of the English 
language) for logic and truth; Elbert Hubbard, who, by the way, 
is one of the most versatile writers of his day and age and is do- 
ing more for humanity (making them mad — setting them to 
thinking) through his ''Philistine and Little Journeys,'' (the latter 
being a classic and masterpiece of our language on biography of 
geniuses and other great men) which must be read to be appre- 
ciated, and for the highest attainment in spirituality and the 
higher ethics, one should read 'The World of Advance 
Thought" (published in Portland, Oregon) by Lucy A. Mallory, 
one of the greatest thinkers of her age, and last but not least, is 
Brother William Marion Reedy ("St. Louis Mirror"), who pub- 
lished through the Roycrofters, at East Aurora, New York, his 
Law of Love, which is a masterpiece within itself, with which he 
uses the dagger freely to make you think, then by his sweet har- 
monious heart to heart talks he heals the wound and lulls you 
into a reverie which you almost wish would continue through- 
out the eons of eternity! Reedy may die (?), but his Law of 
Love never! Society needs many more such master minds, 
thinkers and non-conformists who will unload their ideas in a 
book for non-thinking humanity. 

COURTS AND LAWYERS. There are various and divers 
Courts on the earth connected with the judicial part of human 
society (the four-footed animals don't need them) and among 
said courts is a court of Equity-Conscience (?) Court. There 
are, however, a large number of real conscience courts (some- 
thing less than a hundred million in the United States alone, each 
one having a court house of its own, in the form of a skull, back- 
bone and solar plexus. The judge, jury and lawyers, including 
the witnesses are dispensed with in this court, and very prop- 
erly, too, as we shall hereafter see. The amount of equity dis- 
bursed in this court depends upon the quantity and quality of 
the unfoldment of the inner soul consciousness of the individual, 

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doing at all times and places as he would wish to be done by. 
He who stops to consider whether he will do a wrongful act or 
not is done for. He must abide the decision of his conscience, 
and that, too, without hesitation — ^every time. If this Court was 
used at all times and under all circumstances, there would be an 
opportunity for the judges and lawyers to become useful mem- 
bers of society — produce something besides strife among the 
members thereof. So long as the individual members of society 
(that means you, dear reader) stretch and harden your and their 
consciences, there will be use for judges and lawyers; now, how- 
ever, they, including the doctors and preachers, form what the 
doctors call the vermiform appendix to society, otherwise they 
would all disappear like the dew before the radiance of the morn- 
ing sun. (There is too much law; the people are too much gov- 
erned. Too many clubs and secret societies; every society means 
another government; one is enough for a great man; all should 
be and can be great, in this respect, at least. The more the gov- 
ernment does for the people, the more dependent they become, 
lose their individuality,hence, worse ofif. What is there, outside of 
liberty worth living for? In order to solve the temperance 
problem, it is necessary to begin at the cradle (individual), edu- 
cate the individual; that, too, will do away with socialism and 
trades unions, both of which are necessary (evils) in our present 
state of unfoldment. They are evils to individual effort, all that 
goes to make men great — great nations. Knowledge is power 
to overcome poverty and disease — all that is lacking to make 
earth a heaven. Wisdom is not all education; only the wise suc- 
ceed. Success is in attaining our ideal. The trouble with the 
toiler is, he don't patronize the free library enough. Andrew 
Carnegie is right; he is doing more good for the toiler than any 
other man on the earth today. The toiler gains nothing by 
kicking at Rockefeller et al, but does gain wisdom reading the 
lives of great men, learn something of their habits of economy 
in starting in life — they lose sight of the humble beginning of 

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great people, how they earned their first $ioo; they had no 
saloon Hmit, distance to them lent enchantment. The habits of 
the average mechanic are so extravagant that they astound the 
ordinary business man. If the mechanic earns from $20 to $30 
per week it all goes. And what does he spend it for? more es- 
pecially if he is a single man? The best 25-cent meal in the 
United States does not cost to exceed, on the average, more 
than eight cents — that is a big margin against the toiler and m 
favor of the hotel and boarding house, in the end with the single 
man, they get it all. That is not a brilliant ending for the in- 
dividual mechanic. Of course, if a mechanic is a good union 
man, he ends up in the usual way — a mechanic. Otherwise by 
strict economy he can soon boss the job. Married men (me- 
chanics) are not much better in their habits of thrift (if not bet- 
ter before marriage, they will not be better afterwards) than the 
single man. And another thing that prevents them from rising 
in the world is, they are too high-toned to work at other work 
than their trade. It requires rigid economy, for at least a few 
years, to overcome poverty. Who are the real beneficiaries in 
the labor unions — that is, in the end? Is it not their managing 
bosses? Econo'my is no disgrace. 

LEPROSY: A disease originating with the first advent of 
man on this earth plane. It originated in very hot alkaloid coun- 
tries (alkali in the water and soil) or in the very coldest coun- 
tries and is fostered and maintained in that class of climates. In 
the climates of extreme heat and cold, where there is a scarcity 
of soap and water. Primarily it was caused by uncleanliness of 
the person, continuing for a number of generations, which, in 
time, caused a peculiar kind of paralysis of the skin — facial pa- 
ralysis — skin paralysis which also affects the eyes, not so much 
the sight as the nerves, giving the eyes a glassy appearance. 
The three thicknesses of skin on the affected parts are dead and 
in time when it affects the finger or toe, and rots or kills the 

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skin clear around it, per se, must sluff off, generally the ends 
of them. Aside from habits of personal uncleanliness, lack of 
earth^s salts must, and generally is, present where the disease is 
contracted. Nearly all waters and vegetables coming from be- 
neath the surface of the ground (soil) contain these earth salts> 
an under-supply of which will produce scurvy, — an over-supply 
will lay the foundation for leprosy. To the layman these di- 
seases would seem to be akin, but the reverse is the truth. 
Leprosy is a kind of a degeneration of the outer and inner tis- 
sues of the skin, caused by lack of consumption or an over-con- 
sumption of some one of the component parts of the body — that 
is, the soil produces an under or over-supply of the actual com- 
ponent parts of the body (those things should be studied by our 
agriculturists and agricultural colleges. After a good deal of 
research on the subject of fish diet causing this disease, I have 
concluded that a few generations of this diet which would in- 
clude more or less putrid fish, would have at least, a tendency 
to nurture and foster this disease. So far, I have referred to 
non-syphilitic leprosy. The other kind will be touched upon la- 
ter on. It affects communities of the same soil, habits, etc. 
Scurvy is not a blood-disease — inherited. Leprosy, in one sense 
of the word, is. It can, however, only be caught by inoculation 
and is transmitted from father or mother to child at the rate of 
about fifty per cent. What the physicians don't know about 
this disease would fill a large volume, they with the orthodox 
have come to the conclusion from the Bible that God sent it as 
a punishment for sin — pure tommyrot — that it is incurable; that 
there was something providential behind it. It is only within the 
last few years that the imedical fraternity has taken hold of this 
disease and has already found a cure for it. Why has it not 
been studied, like other diseases? Was it because it was and is 
a poor man's disease? Original orthodox Christianity did noth- 
ing for these poor wretches! Turned them out like animals to 
die! It is only recently that society has taken a hold of this di- 

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sease in earnest and with flattering results. The disease is eas- 
ily cured. I have been possessed of a cure for the past eight 
years. I visited the leper hospital in 1898 with the object of cur- 
ing the inmates of that institution,then numbering twenty-seven, 
but the medical board of health would not let me try because 
I was not an M. D., and to have me perfect a cure would have 
covered them all over with disgrace. Twenty of the lepers of 
that institution were not lepers at all, had been, but were cured; 
but two of them had any sores on them and one of those was a 
syphilitic case. It was a first-class outrage to confine those peo- 
ple. The only excuse the doctors gave for so doing was the fear 
that they would transmit the disease through marriage. It would 
have been much more humane to have unsexed and turned them 
loose. The present cure for this disease is almost identical with 
mine; they cauterize the sores, then by a long continued use of 
a blood purifier (a Japanese remedy) a cure is effected; 
they do not diet them — there is where they make a 
mistake. My remedy is now being tried on the Norway 
lepers by an elminent physician. The remedy is as 
follows , towit: First, administer an anesthetic, fill the 
ulcers with boiling hot pitch — pine tar; bind up and let remain 
three days or even four days is better; when the bandage is re- 
moved the ulcer will be found to be white and healing from all 
sides, after which liquified sulphur, alternately with mineral salt 
(the residue left, after condensation of the water of a good, 
powerful mineral spring) and rigid diet for one year will cure any 
case where the ulcer is not too large and they will be cured for 
good. Lack of means prevented the author from devoting his 
whole life to the cure for those unfortunates. This remedy will 
cure syphilitic leprosy (a continuation of syphilis) as wxll and 
incidently, where it can be gotten at a cancer-fever sore or any 
other kind of an old sore. The remedy is a little harsh, but sure 
and speedy. 

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MARRIAGE. A woman with a low order of vitality is fort- 
unate to marry a man with an over-supply, vice versa, the weak 
one will absorb the vitality of the stronger — nature is a great 
equalizer — and in this case the offspring will be the normal 
(zero) — nature's equilibrium. No man ever hangs around a 
court house, doctor's office or dentist's office — he must be sym- 
pathetic and honest to be good. 

DENTISTRY is a useful profession (?) in this age of 
"breakfast foods" and pre-digested foods. We are gettmg too 
lazy or we don't have the time to use our molar mill, prefer to 
have steel or stone burrs to do the work for us, and as a result, 
nature is taking our teeth aw^ay from us for non-user. In some 
things the dentists are woefully ignorant. They nearly all deny 
two proven facts — First, that extremely old persons ever have 
new teeth, and second, that a tooth once becoming loosened, will 
grow fast to the gum again. It is the coming profession (?) — 
not that we require the teeth for natural use, but for speaking 
and beauty. In time we will all be toothless, unless we change 
our habits — use our teeth and stomachs, too. People are making 
a ''howling success" curing dyspepsia by eating fine gravel; it 
don't occur to them that the stomach is dying for the want of 
coarse foods — dying for something to do. Mary Ramsey, of 
Hillsboro, Oregon, at the age of 119 years has a new tooth, and 
why? Did you ever notice the new and complete growth of a 
new orange in the bloom end of a navel orange? Did you ever 
notice potatoes overdue in digging grow a new and complete 
growth from their eyes? You will now understand why very old 
people have second everything, if they live long enough. How- 
ever, if they had lived in harmony with the laws of nature (the 
author has never found any one that did) they would have no 
occasion for second sight, the first sight and first everything 
would be good enough to last one hundred years, young. An 
early rose potato will, every time, produce an early rose potato, 

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but the potato ball from it will produce twenty different kinds 
of potatoes, but no carrots or turnips. Does this harmonize with 
the evolution of the species? 

TOBACCO, used temperately, is conducive to long life, its 
tendency is to ward off a good many diseases, as it partially sat- 
isfies the apppetite, preventing many diseases caused by glut- 
tony. WHISKEY is an excellent thing for snake bites. Inci- 
dentally, a little alcohol and water taken in extreme fatigue will 
prolong life. 

COLDS VS. GLITTTONISM. Nine-tenths of the colds 
(?) which the human family catch (?) are not caught at all. Their 
cause being a bilious attack, gluttony and a rotten sewer. The 
other one-tenth is caught not from exposure of the lungs and 
fore part of the chest, but from a sudden change in the atmos- 
phere, affecting the spine from the base of the brain down which 
affects the lungs, and rarely, if ever, receiving the protection be- 
stowed upon the chest. All under-clothing in the universe should 
be provided with a snugly-fitted collar. People of a low order of 
vitality ,when compelled to be exposed to the sudden changes of 
the elements, should wear underneath their regular under- 
clothing a double vest of extra heavy sheep's wool with a close- 
fitting collar, in which event the outer underclothing need not 
have a collar. 

HEROES AND HEROINES. The pure unadulterated 
and genuine kind were to be found in Oregon, Washington and 
California, but the reaper has thinned their ranks at a rapid rate 
during the last decade and yet there are a goodly number re- 
maining to enjoy some of the fruits of their labor. I particularly 
refer to those dear souls who crossed the mountains and the 
great American desert that was, the landscape of which is now 
dotted with homes in which are chubby bare feet, dimpled cheeks 
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earth's sphere. The picture of an ox team and covered wagon, 
whether inhabited or not, always fills my heart with rever- 
ence for the pioneer. I feel like doffing my hat to it. Doctor 
McLoughlin was well named 'The Father of Oregon," and was 
the peer of them all, God bless him! He did all he could to 
make Oregon what she is, a paradise (with due apology to all the 
other Pacific Coast states) for the man with small means and the 
constant reader of the public library. The author cannot find 
words to express his appreciation for Doctor McLoughlin, nor 
for those who have so ably defended his honored name in the 
pioneer history of Oregon, headed by Frederick V. Holman, Esq. 

Heroes or heroines are not recognized by any religion, race 
or color, or condition. Those to whom I now specifically refer 
are those who crossed the plains with their ox teams and then 
went to work, for all time to come, to lay the foundation for the 
great Pacific Coast. And what a great and grand foundation 
they did lay! The basic foundation of which was industry, 
economy, morality, perseverance and loyalty to their homes, to 
their cities, counties and states and also to their country's flag 
(Old Glory), and by their organization of a territorial govern- 
ment for the better protection of their homes and firesides and 
for the firesides of those who were to follow. The first that ar- 
rived found a loyal friend (I might say a father) in Doctor 
McLoughlin, and with but few exceptions they did not forget 
him, but they, too, kept on playing the friend to those who came 
later and kept this up until they were called upon to cross the 
Great Divide. The exceptions, above mentioned, of those who 
forgot the kindness of Doctor McLoughlin were not those who 
failed to pay back to the good old doctor the price of his goods, 
wares and merchandise. They were not the ones who broke his 
heart and deprived him of seeing some of the fruits of his labor 
by laying him in a premature grave. Is the sect, as a whole, 
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guilty? The representatives of the sect, at that time, have all 
changed from material into spirit, and sometime, somewhere, will 
have to answer the complaint and charge. If a prairie schooner 
hove in sight, there was a scene of activity in the home of the 
pioneer. The first thing they did was to get the number of souls 
it contained; to get the names to put into the pot, which had al- 
ready been put on the fire, the father being in the field at work, 
two little bare feet went for him; he did not wait for the dinner 
horn. He just unhitched the horses, or oxen, and came home to 
meet, greet and welcome the newcomer. After a wash-up and a 
good warm dinner the host hitched up HIS team to give the 
jaded beasts a rest, and the men folks were off land hunting. 
They soon found a homestead. That afternoon or evening the 
neighbors were notified of the arrival of the newcomer — that 
meant, they must have a house to shelter them — that meant, 
that in a few days there would be a ''house raising" and a 
''house warming'', and if this occurred in the spring of the year, 
was followed by seed potatoes, grain, etc. How often does this 
occur in 1907? All these pioneers were, in turn, surrounded by 
a hostile foe — red men, savages, who were always on the aleit 
to "swipe" something, and, now and then, they would take the 
warpath and generally in that part of the territory where they 
were the least expected. Think, dear reader, of the father with 
his old imusket in hand, kissing his dear ones ''good bye" to 
greet the call of a brother pioneer in some other part of the ter- 
ritory to quell some Indian uprising. It is too bad that there 
were no Carnegie fund for heroes at that time! But our govern- 
ment played the part of a Carnegie (?) thirty years aftei. I al 
ways take oflf my hat to a pioneer of either sex. Old Missouri 
sent the greatest number, and some of the grandest, too. Mis- 
souri has the greatest variety of agricultural products of any state 
in the Union. For hospitality she is the greatest, too. 

In passing, I will say this on this subject: that the pioneers 
of every state in this Union are just as good and true and self- 

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sacrificing as the pioneers of the Pacific Coast, but their hard- 
ships were not so great — they did not have so much to endure. 

God bless every pioneer, pathfinder, railroad builder, thin- 
ker (along original lines), genius, agitator and freak in the 
whole world! People with refined thoughts (not all of the dol- 
lar), thoughts that ripen or materialize into something beautiful 
and refining, while those with coarsened thoughts materialize 
them into something the reverse! The former class furnish the 
material, with some noble exceptions, for heroes and heroines. 
The father and mother belong to the first class pioneeis, citi- 
zens or any other kind of an old thing. After all the parents who 
have no children, or who have lost them early in life who nur- 
ture and care for the orphan (homeless) are peers per se. A 
large volume could be written on the blessedness and goodness 
of our passing pioneers. I touched this subject because it was 
dear to my heart. There are two names of persons now dead 
to which I cannot refrain fromi making honorable mention: they 
are the Hon. A. R. Burbank and his noble wife,honored pioneers 
of LaFayette, in old Yamhill county, Oregon, a county rich m 
resources — pioneers, great and tender-hearted loving people, 
they kept an open house and an open purse as long as they lived. 
They faced the future with the sweet perfumes of love and affec- 
tion for humanity effervescing from their immortal spirits, 
and long e'er this have they found their niche in the tri-colored 
dome of eternity. Due credit is due the ''Oregonian" and its 
editor (who himself belongs to noble pioneer stock, brainy 
stock) and whose sister, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, is easily a 
peeress on the Pacific Coast among her sex as a leader, thinker 
and liberator of her sex from the slavery imposed upon them by 
the male part of society, for the kind and tender manner in 
which he refers to the sacred name of the pioneers, living or 
dead. And a great deal of credit is due to the other pioneers of 
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tender and affectionate way of referring to the pioneers of our 
great west. 

PNEUMONIA: This disease kills more of the human 
race than consumption. A delicate person rarely has it — not be- 
cause they know the cause of the disease — for they per se, eaily 
in life, learn to be temperate in eating and regulate (?) their 
bowels with cathartics, instead of a diet of fruit and vegetables. 
Cathartics are one per cent better than nothing. The whole in- 
ternal sewer of man, with all its ramifications, is lined with mil- 
lions of suckers, that, when anything comes their way, open, 
suck and absorb what they can of it as it passes along down be- 
low the stomach. The stomach and bowels are always in motion 
when there is anything for them to do, otherwise, in perfect sleep, 
they rest. At all other times they are constantly at work, when 
they have no food to work, they consume the fats of the body 
that are stored away for that purpose, and when the fats are gone, 
they consume themselves. So long as a cathartic enters the 
stomach, there is a rebellion, or in fact, any other kind of a 
medicine, to eject the same, throw it off, get rid of it in any old 
way. This is followed by almost a total exhaustion, which in a 
few days must be followed by more until a general breakdown 
occurs. 

A clogged sewer can only be compared to an old, filthy 
swill barrel, from either of which arise foul and poisonous gases, 
which in the sewer are taken up and absorbed by the suckers 
and through them into the blood or ramify through the air pas- 
sages, towit: the lungs, which, in time, become congested, that's 
it: pneumonia is never caused from a cold unless these condi- 
tions are present. Healthy people should read and heed this ar- 
ticle before they pass below the zero mark. They will then be 
able to cheat the medicine man out of a fee. The M. D.'s prog- 
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throw off the poison (and that is correct), he will survive," 
otherwise, he will fall into a confused sleep and awake amid the 
eons of eternity. 

If the patient's blood is not too much charged with poison, 
the rotten sewer (cause) cleansed, strong stimulants given, fol- 
lowed by a nutritious diet, he may, by the help of nature, survive; 
otherwise, he falls into a cataleptic sleep, which is speedily fol- 
lowed by (mortus) dissolution. 

ANGER, in five minutes, will close the salivary glands 
and if it occurs to a nursing mother, or a sudden fright or shock 
of any kind, and the child nurses during said time, in the major- 
ity of cases the child will die. Anger in a healthy person is al- 
ways followed by a rotten breath, and a bite from such a person 
will cause a speedy death. This I call mental blood poisoning. 
The mind is a wonder worker in the cause of disease as well as 
in the laws of health and longevity. 

DIPHTHERIA is caused from a rotten sewer and is not, 
necessarily, a throat disease. It generally attacks the whole 
sewer or the weakest part of it — bronchial tubes, in young per- 
sons. The difference in the color of the ulcers, predicating their 
quality, is the difference in the quantity and quality of the poi- 
sonous gases arising from the fetid and rotten sewer. The odor 
arising therefrom is epidemic to those persons (one-half of hu- 
manity have rotten sewers), but not to others. 

SOCRATES. If he had been a ''goody goody'' stone cut- 
ter (he started in on that) and allowed his wife to browbeat him 
when he was not cutting stone, we should never have heard a 
word about him,. He rebelled against his wife and stone cutting 
too, and as a result he will outlive us all in his philosophy. 

CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS. This disease attacks 
the base of the brain and generally continues along the spine. 

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It was originally known and diagnosed as ''spotted fever." More 
than three-fourths of the persons attacked by this disease are 
scrofulous-syphilitic. In such cases it is tuberculosis of the base 
of the brain. All such persons are subject to tuberculosis in any 
part of the body — including the bones — and is a genuine blood 
disease — transmittable. The only way to overcome this disease 
is to be your own ancestor, take constitutional treatment for at 
least one hundred years and inculcate in your children the same 
principles. With this class of * persons this disease is not 
epidemic. There is, however, a form of disease that attacks 
pure blooded and healthy people, the cause of which has been 
a great puzzle to the author. So far as he has been able to trace 
it, it is epidemic and climatic. It rarely attacks people in a 
warm, mountainous country. One of the principal causes is a 
sudden change in the atmospheric condition, and that the at- 
mospheric atomites of this disease are inhaled through the lungs 
into the circulation of the blood. Other causes are a long-con- 
tinued east wind (on the Pacific Coast), sudden changes in 
habits, over-exertion and a sudden exposure to a very coid 
draught, causing the congestion of the spine, together with the 
base of the brain. 

This disease generally yields to treatment — violent mas- 
sage of the spine and the base of the brain, followed by mustard 
plasters from the base of the brain to the lower part of the spine. 
These plasters must be strong enough not to blister, changed 
every two hours and kept up until the patient falls into a natural 
sleep, which signifies that he has returned to a normal condition. 

HEART DISEASE. All the deaths, premature and other- 
wise, occurring on the earth, may be attributed to this disease. 
The regular physician attributes about 25 per cent of all the 
deaths to it, while as a matter of fact, the true amount should be 
about five percent. Heart disease is a misnomer. Many people die 
of this disease under the impression that they are in good health. 

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About 5 percent of the people you meet on the street are ready 
to die — ripe for death, yet they do not know it. A few people, per 
se, have valvular affection of the heart, but nine-tenths of the 
deaths attributed to this disease occur fro^m blood-poisoning, 
caused by a worn-out kidney and non-user of the body — lack of 
physical exercise. Whisky, tobacco and narcotics, in excess, 
lead up to this disease. A body in perfect order, mentally and 
physically, cannot be diseased. Diseases result from disorder, 
not from order; it is the reverse of ease. 

PARALYSIS. Persons built like a China hog (are gen- 
erally hogs by nature)have bullet heads, short chubby necks, are 
subject to this disease — people who never scrimp their stomachs 
or any other organs of their bodies (excepting their brains on 
the subject of health); their brains are, however, above the nor- 
mal on the subject of money-getting. They are full-blooded, 
fuU-appetited, full of animal and full of stimulants when they can 
get them, or any other condiments, and are generally unable to 
control their appetites and passions, all of which tends to their 
early undoing or premature death. Nature takes their brains for 
non-user (you toughen, strengthen and develop the brain by 
use, the same as any other organs of the body) which, coupled 
with their mode of living, in time weakens the arteries and other 
small blood-vessels of the brain, which burst, leaving a clot of 
blood on the brain, which means paralysis to the part of the 
brain affected and affecting the corresponding muscles of the 
body. Nature will always do her part towards removing same, 
and if the cause of the disease is removed at once, in many cases 
she will remove it — that is, she will absorb the clot, carry it off 
into the circulation. The class of people subject to this disease 
are prodiguous workers; generally the first break in their con- 
stitution is ''nervous prostration," only, however, one-half of 
which is caused by overwork and the other one-half is caused 
by over-everything else. 

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HIGHER ETHICS. A person who has no faith or belief 
in himself, in his brother man, in his country or his God (Good) 
is soulless in hell, and will rdmain there throughout the count- 
less eons of eternity or until he discovers himself, here or there. 
One of the greatest discoveries of the last century was man's 
discovery of himself. If we know a man's desires it is equal to 
knowing his character (soul), and can then find his niche, whe- 
ther at the beginning or end of the circle of eternity. A man's 
face is the true picture of his soul. Music, love, truth and har- 
monious thoughts belong to the higher life. A man with a 
healthy hobby is rich, per se. Conjugal love is a sacrifice. No 
great man ever made an attentive husband. Every man that is 
true to his inner conscience and convictions is a TRUE Chris- 
tian, whether in or out of the church. Egypt was the home of 
astronomy and philosophy, and the sphinx is the only monument 
left of it. 

DREAMS. A person in perfect health and in a normal 
sleep never remembers a dream. From childhood to the grave, 
we as well as the four-footed animals, are subject to dreams. 
Rightly understood, like pain, they are a blessing. Your dreams 
portray your physical condition. Dreams that you remember 
occur just at the time when the subconscious (soul) mind is 
giving away to the conscious (mind) when you are about to 
awake. What passes through our soul mind in perfect sleep is 
a sealed book, and likewise its effect upon our lives, and whether 
during our waking hours we receive the suggestions of life, from 
the soul mind, is so, how many or at all? And what influence 
have they on our lives — that is, through our conscious minds? 
We know as death approaches persons under water, that all 
the scenes, Hke a panorama of their past lives, pass before 
them; therefore, is it not safe to say that in other modes of 
death the scenes may be the same? The first indication of a 
fever is in our dreams: the worse the fever, the worse (?) more 

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real are our dreams! This is caused by some inflamed organ of 
the body coming in contact with the spine (continuation of the 
brain), which organ may be in any part of the human sewer. 
Frightful and vivid dreams indicate that the spine has been over- 
heated, which is a false alarm to the brain (arising from the solar 
plexus) to wake the sleeper, for the brain to go to work, and 
such dreams generally awake the sleeper with a fear of fallings 
etc. The more fever the less sleep, and the more vivid the 
dreams until sleep ceases, then hallucinations, which are fol- 
lowed by a speedy dissolution. 

A dream must touch the conscious state, otherwise it is not 
a dream. Dreams mean a troubled sleep, which may be caused 
by worry, overwork and by having more clothing under you 
than over you during your sleeping hours. Sick people, near 
death, suffer with hallucinations (dreaming out loud, in a semi- 
unconscious state). The more the vitality of the body is re- 
duced the stronger and more vivid are the dreams, which in- 
creases the power of the sub-conscious mind (soul). This can 
easily be proven by reducing a person by hypnotic (?) sugges- 
tion (agreement between the minds of the operator and the sub- 
ject) or suggestive therapeutics to a state of clairvoyance in 
which they can see through a body (human or of any other de- 
scription) while in this (trance) state; all substance becomes 
apparent to them; it is like looking through glass or clear water; 
their sight far surpasses the X-Ray light. When persons have 
vivid dreams, it is well for them to change their habits of sleep- 
ing and eating. The heart (?) (solar plexus) is almost entirely 
governed by the mind — great mind — good and great heart- 
sympathies. We should be thankful for any kind of old Hfe. He 
who cannot find a person within his arms' reach on whom to 
bestow a kind act, will never find one — ^^he don't want to find one. 
The more friends we have, the more we have to live for. No 
friends, no life! If you can't find a kind act to do during the 

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day, say a kind and loving word; someone is looking for it. 
What is past you cannot undo; the future here is a blank; there- 
fore improve the present moment. For health it is better to 
change habits than climate. An unkind word or an unkind 
act is almost an unpardonable sin. You can heal the wound of 
a dagger, but not the wound of an unkind word. Truth is the 
only real thing worth living for. Human society is steeped in 
falsehoods; it begins its lying at the cradle and teaches its false- 
hood as soon as the soul can begin to understand, and keeps 
this up until the son or daughter knows better and knows that 
their parents are deliberately lying. This is all unnecessary. The 
truth pays better at all times and places. Unless the parents are 
truthful and honest to the child, how do you expect the child to 
be truthful and honest? Either tell a child (of any age) the truth 
at all times or keep silent. Fiction for the enlargement of the 
child's imaginative powers should be carefully selected; in that 
respect pur public schools are progressing along those lines. 
Wrong doing and right doing are generally of a steady growth. 
There is just as much sense in knowing when to let go of a thing 
as there is in knowing when to take hold of it. 

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS' SANITARIUMS. This 
church, as a creedist, double discounts them all; and for a won- 
der includes deeds with its creed. Through their sanitariums 
they are doing a noble work for humanity. Their magazine is 
doing a great work in the domain of dietetics, correct living and 
in the prevention of diseases. This is the first church to do and 
dare; teach the people the cause of disease and that, by so doing, 
they could live independent of drug stores, doctors and med- 
icines, but not without the minister. Yet this church, with all 
its sanitariums, is only in the first, crank stage of its existence 
along those lines. It laid the foundation of the ''breakfast food 
age'' and absorbed the vegetarian system of living; and has, and 
is, running this system into the ground — going too much to ex- 

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tremes. The idea of living in this commercial age without meats, 
fish, dairy products, pepper, salt and other seasonings! Without 
one or more component parts of the body! The following will 
give you an idea of what the body is composed of, towit : A bowl 
of sugar, enough salt to provide a dinner party, enough iron to 
make five carpet tacks, enough gas to fill a gas meter of 3.949 
feet, enough carbon to make 9,360 lead pencils, enough phos- 
phorous to make 6,064 boxes of matches, enough hydrogen to 
fill a balloon that would lift itself. There is enough fat to make 
from four to eight pounds of candles. This is a fair estimate of 
the component parts of the body, of which we must have a por- 
portional share to keep the body to the zero mark. In this con- 
nection I will add a few health hints: Eat fruit and vegetables 
(the latter in the fonm of salads) before meals. Asparagus stim- 
ulates the kidneys. Watercress is an excellent blood purifier. 
Honey is a good substitute for cod liver oil. Onions and celery 
are both good nerve tonics. Parsnips w^ll take the place of sar- 
saparilla. Bananas are excellent food for weak-chested people. 
Celery contains sulphur (mother of alkaloids), which is good for 
rheumatic pains, as it counteracts the uric acid. Tomatoes are 
good for the liver and beets are fattening. 

In the last two or three years this church (adventist) is com- 
ing to its senses. It found that its sanitariums were filling up at 
a rapid rate with its own students, mostly with cancer. They 
have found out, or should have found out by this time, that man 
must absorb into his system all the component parts of the body; 
otherwise disintegration will set in in some part of the body (the 
weakest), and, unless that component part is known and at once 
suppHed to the body, a speedy dissolution will follow. All this 
detracts but little from the good this church is doing. They are 
pioneering it; they are setting people to thinking along those 
lines. Those that will not think imust take their chances (it will 
be some time before society will have to shoot a man to start 
a graveyard). After all, it all lies with the individual. 

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. The idea of a christian (?) min- 
ister denouncing this doctrine! The doctrine that is the very 
personification of Christ! The doctrine that takes Christ liter- 
ally at his word! Christ said: ''The powers I have (in health) I 
leave with you; yea, even greater powers." 

This sect,, however, is in the same rut that Adventism is in — 
that is, in the primitive, first stage of its evolution. It has done 
a grand work for humanity; it will, in time, do a grander work. 
It will outgrow its creed after a while; it will teach more of the 
Christ principle within and less of the leaning on the unfolding 
of the personal Christ. They require more power in the pew 
and less in the pulpit! They are long on faith and short on 
deeds and wisdom; long on the effect and short on the cause. 
By faith you can harmonize the mind (will), equalize the circu- 
lation of the blood, which will cure nearly all diseases in their 
primitive state. They imake a mistake when they undertake to 
cure blood diseases — that is, diseases of a scrofulous nature. Be- 
fore they can master those diseases they must begin at the cradle 
and teach the doctrine that every man must be his own ancestor, 
understand dietetics and constitutional treatment, and be able to 
control his appetites and passions. 

WELTMERISM (SUGGESTIVE THERAPEUTICS). 
This class of healing is similar to Christian Science (minus the 
faith); it, too, works on the mind by suggestion. The operator 
gives the suggestion and the patient receives it, acts on it and is 
cured, unless he has a blood disease or an organic disease. This 
''cult" is curing hundreds of thousands of people and doing a 
world of good in their extensive advertising, which is causing 
people to think for themselves (something unknown before the 
beginning of this century) and is doing more good than any 
other cult or sect in existence. Once a person gets out into the 
iield of thought he never returns to the beggary realms of earth, 
but keeps on going until he arrives at the end of the great neb- 

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ular highway of eternity. By wisdom we learn to separate the 
wheat from the chafif, good from the bad. We should retain the 
good and discard the bad, and from all weave a philosophy into 
our character that will radiate with beauty, naturalness, truth- 
fulness, goodness, purity of thought (body) and justice here and 
hereafter, all of which costs nothing and buys a good deal. 

OSTEOPATHY. As an all-around cure for diseases this 
profession discounts all the others (including the regulars) by at 
least fifty per cent. It was the natural outgrowth of massage — 
equalizing the circulation by manipulation of the flesh and mus- 
cles. They have, unconsciously, absorbed the magnetic theory 
of healing (healing by magnetism — astral fluid), emanating 
through the hands of the operator without contact with the 
body, by manipulation and suggestion straight, while genuine 
osteopathy is a combination of both. This class of healing is, 
as yet, but very little understood. The consensus of opinion is, 
however, that by some law of nature (as yet not well under- 
stood) the healer is overcharged with health and for the time 
being absorbs the disease (primarily) into his system (the author 
is a natural healer and speaks from personal experience) and 
gives out an equal amount of health to the patient. Nature is 
a great equalizer. Nearly all (non-blood and non-chronic) 
diseases are healed in this way. This, by a large number of 
people, and thinkers too, is classed under the head of a spiritual 
gift — that is, suggestion tO' and through a sensitive person 
(medium) from healers who have at one time occupied this 
earth plane and return for the benefit of their fellow man. The 
author not being a medium but an advanced student along those 
lines, has about come to the conclusion that it is a spiritual gift 
(awaiting our unfoldment to understand), coming from intelli- 
gences who at one time have occupied this mundane sphere, 
which in turn, with us, draw power to alleviate the sufferings 
of humanity from the nebular fountain of eternity. 

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SUGGESTIVE THERAPEUTICS. Under this head I 
will mention two extreme cases. It is well known to any psy- 
chological student that a healthy person under the full control of 
a hypnotic operator can be reduced down to a cataleptic state 
(trance) and even lower and unto death. 

In France a case is recorded where a criminal under the 
sentence of death was informed that he was to be bled to death 
by a slow process. Being blindfolded, Kis arm was scratched 
with cold steel (a vessel of water had already been prepared 
above the victim, the water dropping therefrom, drop by drop, 
so that he could hear it plainly) and in about the usual time the 
victim was stone dead. And that, too, without the loss of a drop 
of blood! He believed he was bleeding to death — that did the 
work. 

The other extreme case (both scientific history) was in 
France, too, with this difference: in this case the criminal was 
sentenced to the guillotine — being placed under the knife — in the 
full belief that his head w^as to be severed from his body at a 
given signal, and instead of the knife falling, a cold, wet towel 
was passed over his neck and he, too, was picked up dead. How- 
ever wise one may be in taking suggestions (fools rarely, if ever, 
take one; if they did, they would no longer be fools), they should 
never give out or take one relating to running down, looking 
bad, showing old age, poverty, disease, etc., nor associate with 
persons who give or offer such suggestions. Health and poverty 
are both epidemic, catching. All manner of diseases, chronic 
and otherwise, have been cured by suggestion. Touching the 
hem of Christ's garment, a portion of the original cross, or even 
looking upon the bones of dead saints, even in this day and age, 
are working wonderful cures. This class of healing is being 
done by the Catholic Church — a grand work — and it is a pity 
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study themselves, their relations to the universe, seek more the 
cause and less the cure! 

Nearly all physicians know the value of suggestion and those 
who do not, should know it. Giving up to the suggestion of 
the doctor loved ones, or even friends (?) to the suggestion of 
three score and ten, physical decay and old age has produced mil- 
lions of premature deaths! The hermit and miser: the former is 
delivered from his friends and the latter is too stingy to be a glut- 
ton! Neither dies prematurely. Neither does the Indian or 
the negro in their primitive, natural, native state. Why? When- 
ever a new disease is heralded throughout the world (through 
the press) it soon becomes fashionable and (like everything else 
in the universe) thrives for a season, all by the law of suggestion. 
Don't read medical (?) almanacs for cures, but for useful sug- 
gestions. Every periodical, pamphlet, circular and paper contain- 
ing printed matter is valuable to some person, if for nothing else: 
grammar, spelling and punctuation. Everything is a grist that 
comes to a thinker's mill. 

ASTHMA-BRONCHITIS. They are very closely allied, 
and neither, properly speaking, is a disease, but from the effect 
of a fevered sewer, fro'm which arises a hot fevered gas, affecting 
the bronchial tubes in all their various and diverse ramifications. 
Healthy persons need have no fear of these diseases (?), regard- 
less of the altitude, climate, condition or exposure; otherwise, if 
they lived in heaven they could not escape it, or in fact any other 
disease without first knowing, then removing the cause. 

Scrofulous people (people with a low order of vitality), tall, 
thin-chested people, people who think a good deal, who don't 
(?) have time to stand erect or sit erect, generally too busy 
over money matters, are generally subject to a sinking in at the 
junction of the collar and breast bones, which presses down on 
the bronchial tubes and causes more than one-half of these kind 

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of troubles. The best remedy for this class of people, if they 
won't live right, is to take two half-inch straps, wrap them well 
with soft goods, place one around and over each arm so as to 
catch the point of the shoulder blades, then have a friend get 
behind them with a strap and draw the two together until the 
bones come around to their proper place and leave the same on 
until the bones become set, which will generally take about six 
months. If you have not the pluck to stand the harness, go to 
some drug store and get something that is worse than nothing, 
die good-naturedly, with a smile on your face — nature will never 
shed a tear over it. 

NOT UNDERSTOOD. 

Not understood, we move along asunder, 
Our paths grow wider as the seasons creep 
Along the years ; we marvel and wonder 
Why life is Hfe, and then we fall asleep, 
Not understood. 

Not understood, we gather false impressions 
And hug them closely as the years go by, 
'Till virtues oft seem transgressions. 
And thus men rise and fall, and live and die. 
Not understood. 

Not understood, poor souls with stunted vision 
Oft measure giants by their narrow gauge. 
The poisoned shafts of falsehood and derision 
Are oft launched against those who mould the age. 
Not understood. 

Not understood, the secret springs of action. 
Which lie beneath the surface of the show. 
Are disregarded. With dissatisfaction 

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We judge our neighbors, and they often go, 
Not understood. 

Not understood, how trifles often change us! 
The thoughtless sentence or the fancied slight 
Destroy long years of friendship and estrange us 
And on our souls there falls a freezing blight, 
Not understood. 

Not understood, how many breasts are aching 
For lack of sympathy? Ah! day by day. 
How many cheerless, lonely hearts are breaking. 
How 'many spirits pass away, 
Not understood? 

O God! that man would see a little clearer, 
Or judge less harshly what they cannot see; 
O God! that men would draw a little nearer 
To one another; they would be nearer thee 
And understood. 

— Selected. 

RECAPITULATION, RETROSPECTION AND EXPA- 

TIATION. 

Under this head you will find a brief reference to nearly all 
the subjects heretofore mentioned. Some of the subjects have 
been expatiated upon, illumed and enlarged, and contains a few 
subjects not heretofore mentioned and enlargement of the sub- 
jects ''Sociology and Poverty." The foundation is laid in the 
former part of this book, while from now on will be found the 
key to the arch that holds the structure of this book together, 
and the afterthought and application which the reader, who has 
read the former part of this book, cannot help but understand; 
otherwise, it will be a mere kindergarten to him. 

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FIRST. You saw that everything in the realm of nature 
was round and circular, harimonious. Nature never created a 
square thing in all her vast domains. That means you! If you 
have an ache, pain or a disease during your natural life it is 
through your ignorance or a willful disobedience of the law, not 
being able to control your appetites and passions. 

SECOND. You saw that all diseases and premature death 
are, nominally, of a recent origin, including the whole parapher- 
nalia of doctors, medicine and even alchemy, from which both 
arose, is not much older. The love of gold created them and re- 
tains them, coupled with a total disregard of our early environ- 
ments and retaining all the superstitions of our childhood env- 
ironments. 

THIRD. You saw that all diseases had but four causes: 
mind (suggestion), food, air and water; and you saw that the an- 
imals (including the Indian, free in nature prior to their advent 
with man), living in harfmony, without diseases, doctors, nurses 
and drug stores, excepting God's drug stores — mmeral springs. 

FOURTH. You saw that nature seeks to better you as 
well as your species; and that if you have a disease and the dis- 
ease is ever healed, nature does it, not the doctor. And you saw 
that the old familiar excuse that you had inherited the disease 
from your parents (without it was a blood disease, scrofulaj, was 
pure and straight tommyrot. That up to about ten years ago it 
was considered quite honorable to have a disease; that now (after 
you have read the book) and forever after, it will be an eternal 
disgrace to have or acknowledge that you have a disease or die 
(?) or have a child die (?) prematurely — that is, inside of one 
hundred years, young. 

FIFTH. You saw that the foundation of society is laid 
upon the wedding day. You saw that the time to better the in- 

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dividual physically, mentally and morally was the wedding day 
and from that to the cradle on to maturity, and then transfer the 
trust to the individual (son or daughter) with instructions to 
continue the same to their species and on through earth's kin- 
dergarten, after which they will continue the same throughout 
the great kindergarten of eternity. That means, before birth, to 
begin to create an individual (to be his own ancestor), that can 
and will have the moral stamina to control his appetites and 
passions; this, too, should be the highest aim of the public 
schools. There is no other way to prevent diseases and pre- 
mature death. It is better to come into port surrounded with a 
halo of love and purity in mind and body than with a shroud em- 
blazoned with ignorance, superstition, malice, poverty and dis- 
ease, the cost being the same. If the latter, would it not be in- 
finitely better for our entity (ego, self) to have remained uniden- 
tified in the great ether ocean, fire, mist or eternity? 

SIXTH. You saw the origin of scrofula, that was and is, 
and can be largely overcome by constitutional treatment and 
that in time, by adherence to the law, it will die out — nature 
will remove it to better her species. 

SEVENTH. You saw that every idle individual (rich or 
poor) should be ''black-bottled" and that every person without 
a hobby or some other high ambition, should have one — create 
one — or have a guardian appointed for him. And that nature 
does her weeding out in the young throughout all her vast do- 
main. If they cannot stand the test she puts them mto a long 
unconscious sleep — that is, changes their bodies, returns them to 
the great ocean of creative force from which they came. That 
the only difference between sleep and death of the body is in the 
time of unconsciousness. 

EIGHTH. You saw that nine-tenths of the diseases and 
premature deaths in childhood (from two weeks to ten years of 

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age) were caused from ''piecing" lunching and candy and other 
sweet meats and over and improper diet; that fifty per cent of the 
school children die from the saime cause. Did you ever see a 
pubHc school without a candy shop within a block of it? We 
exclude the saloons and harbor a worse curse! MOTHER- 
HOOD, I want to have a heart to heart talk with you! Every- 
time baby cries you feed it, mix fresh milk or other food with 
half-digested food and that, too, in a little stomach no larger 
than a hen's egg. Does that appeal to your reason? This is 
followed by the colic or inflammation of the bowels. Who is to 
blame for this? Next: narcotics and other nostrums, and for 
that little stomach, too, which, in turn, is t'^o often followed by 
the httle white casket. Now who is to blame, nature, God or 
YOU? You look up for consolation! Nature smiles; she is a 
good, kind and loving mother, too, but very exacting, makes no 
allowance for ignorance and stupidity and caused me to write 
this book for you. You go to the pastor of your church for 
consolation; he answers you: God. What a slander on God and 
on the laws of nature and the universe! Herein and after, min- 
ister of the gospel, be honest; place the sin (?) where it belongs 
— hew to the Hne. I may again call up motherhood before I 
close this book. Reader, this is intended for you personally; 
the rule will work both ways. When you read this book, be a 
crank, be something besides a clod or an ox! Do something 
and do it well. Awake to a state of consciousness, of immor- 
tality — be born again! Do something and think of something 
besides money-getting. People may call you crazy (?); fear not! 
You will soon find that ''hke attracts like" throughout all the 
realms of nature — God. That you will soon be in touch with 
great cranks (?) (crazy) minds, thinkers and philosophers. You 
will soon be in their inner circle of friendship, which ends only 
with the time recorded on the great dial (pleiades) of eternity. 

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from his friends — those friends (fiends) who are always on the 
alert to fix up something; they call it a dainty (death bait is the 
proper name, as often it produces death) dish to hurry us out 
of life. That is, however, their ignorant way of showing their 
neighborly feeling or friendship for the 'Victim". The genuine 
(intelligent) friend will lock the cupboard and the patient's sick 
room (if he is not sick unto death) and leave him an open faucet 
of good pure water to feed on 'till his appetite returns. He is 
then well; nature has had a chance to catch up. A fool killer, 
armed to the teeth, should always stand guard over the patient 
to protect him from friends, pessimists, doctors, good cooks and 
near relatives. 

TENTH. You have learned that there is no truth apart 
from the laws of nature. And you have learned all about ''bullet 
heads" and "long heads", and how to improve the former; and 
the latter, if too long, should study commercialism. 

ELEVENTH. You .found that true culture and greatness 
is in finding one's niche in society and fitting one's self into that 
niche and not kick or knock about it. You found that all per- 
sons can be philosophical (a goodly number are after fifty), but 
few can be philosophers unless they give up money-getting early 
in life. 

TWELFTH. You saw that it was dangerous, in the crank 
stage of dieting, to remain toO' long on a straight line without a 
curve or a tangent; to keep moving and thinking so that nature 
will not take our brains for non-user; that our good and great 
mother nature stands near us to temper us to our environments, 
and that she is an excellent guide. 

THIRTEENTH. That this is a commercial age, requiring 
a good deal of fox and bulldog in us; that in order to exist we 
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breakfast foods (predigested) and coflfee (ground stale bread and 
toast). That at least one hour per day should be devoted to the 
study of one's self. 

FOURTEENTH. That man is so composed of all the 
component parts of the universe, crystal or planet, and is, in fact, 
a complete universe within himself and therefore requires some- 
thing of all the earth produces, and that it should be taken as 
near the earth as possible; that in order to get around to it all, 
\^^ should change often and not overlook anything. 

FIFTEENTH. That it is not wise to examine ourselves 
under a powerful microscope. That man is a dependent being 
— hates to think for himself, would rather the preacher and the 
doctor would think for him. Nature is the greatest thinker and 
philosopher that we know anything about; she is always on the 
alert for non-thinking brains; lulls them to sleep in the bosom 
of her mother Earth. That medicine never healed a disease, but 
if you give nature a chance she is willing and anxious to do it, 
and she can do it. That nature has a zero mark and tries hard 
to keep you above it; that she will not allow anything in her 
vast domains to stand still; that everything must keep moving. 
Nature has no room for idlers; if you stay long below the zero 
mark, she will take you home. She will keep pegging away un- 
til she gets one to suit her. 

SIXTEENTH. You saw that the only things to overcome 
in this life are poverty and disease; master the latter and the 
former is easily overcome; earth will then be a heaven to you, 
and sometime, somewhere, all mysteries will disappear, you will 
know and understand and be understood (the great m.ajority of 
us are not understood in this life), and you will then understand 
why storms, clouds and shrouds have veiled your vision ; how the 
pathway of your life was strewn with jagged rocks, brambles, 

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briers and thorns, and why the guiding Hght never appeared to 
you — a guide, your guide — to clear your vision and pave your 
pathway with an Eden of flowers. You are and you shall be! 
Nothing in the realms of nature can be destroyed. Everything is 
life. You can only change the forms of life. We will return to 
our trysting place; the beginning shall be the end and the end 
the beginning. Our own will come to us here if we will allow 
them to (make the . proper conditions) ; if not here, they will 
there! And we shall be so glad to meet and greet them! Then^ 
together, according to our unfoldment, we shall continue our 
life work (according to our ideals on earth) until we solve in 
detail the mysteries of the universe — origin of life, here and 
there, which will never all be solved (if they were, we would die 
of lethargy) until we reach the cycles' and circles' end, eternity, 
death (?), life, and we are living in that time now as much as we 
ever shall be! Death (?) don't make us any better, but gives us 
more opportunities. In order to overcome you must start out as 
you came into the world — naked, divested of all your early su- 
perstitions and teachings; study the harmonies, beauties and 
perfections of the laws of nature, beginning with the lowest 
forms of life and ending with the highest. 

SEVENTEENTH. That every atom in the universe is a 
thinker (a complete ego within itself) and, in the main, are 
equally divided, male and feimale. That every material (?) ob- 
ject in the universe is composed of a family of those atomites 
held together by the law of love (cohesion); that when there is 
disharmony in that object (planet, man or crystal) there is war! 
There are always hordes of outsiders (atomites) ready to take a 
hand and complete the destruction of the object, human or other- 
wise. They never enter until the seeds of disease have taken a 
firm root. They (like the turkey buzzard) have no use for a 
body until it smells (a human rotten sewer is good enough) to 
heaven. The medical scientists (?) with all their vivisection — 

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murdering by inches poor innocent animals; serum and bac- 
teria have accomplished nothing. They should all be ''black- 
bottled" or marooned on some lonely island without any animals, 
two or four-footed, to torture. Why do they not do a little 
reasoning from cause and effect? Find the cause and remove it! 
One genuine philosopher will do more good than all the scien- 
tists combined. The philosopher, however, is ruled out, not hav- 
ing a prefix M. D. to his name; and the dear deluded 
people! Well, after all, they do not think. If the medical scien- 
tists were paid for writing text books on the cause of diseases, 
both for the public schools and the home, we would soon have 
the earth populated with a healthy race of people. For those 
M. D.'s who cannot write along those lines there is plenty of 
government land left; the land sharks did not get it all. 

EIGHTEENTH. That the atomites of death do not thrive 
in a clean, healthy sewer. That no contagious disease ever en- 
tered a clean, healthy body — clean sewer. The doctors say, and 
truthfully too, that not one person in twenty will listen or take 
advice , relating to the cause of diseases (a good many of them 
would rather read a nickel novel). I don't blame the doctors; 
I blame the people. I am writing this book for the people, not 
for the doctors. Where the patients will not listen to the doctor, 
he should crack their skulls with a potato masher (so they would 
come to), or what is just as good is to let nature put them under 
a ''potion" where they will not come to, for she dearly loves to 
slay her rebel. 

NINETEENTH. That a cold is caused by a dirty sewer 
which, in turn, is caused by gluttony and ignorance, and this 
primarily is the cause of nine-tenths of the diseases that affect 
the human family. You have learned how to clean and retam 
a clean sewer by what to eat, when to eat it and how to eat it. 
Now, don't come to me for details after you read this book — 
study them out yourself. 

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You have learned how to become fat and plump by diet, 
and how to reduce flesh in the same way. That people over- 
stocked with flesh rarely live to be gray-headed. Also the effect 
of drinking while you are eating; and that every adult person 
should, during their waking hours, take into the stomach three 
pints of liquid in some form or another, fruit preferred (as that 
contains about nine-tenths liquid), and the fruit should always be 
eaten on arising from slumber, as long before breakfast as pos- 
sible, and you saw the rules of cooking, diet, how to eat and 
what to eat. 

TWENTIETH. You saw that the cause of all fevers was 
from a rotten sewer — ^^human sewer — within you. You saw that 
one-fourth of the people walking the earth were living corpses; 
and how to keep out of that class and keep your children and 
friends out of it, too. The usual salutations at the celebrated 
hot springs (God's drug stores) of the world are: "How is your 
liver?'' ''Have your bowels moved today?" (The usual saluta- 
tions outside of those places are: "You are looking bad" or "You 
are looking good" or something about the weather), the latter 
class should be confined to a dungeon on bread and water for 
ninety days. If the dear people must have a salutation, let it 
at all times be: "How is your SEWER?" After you read this 
book continue your investigations along these lines and in a 
few years you will be compelled tO' unload your ideas in a book. 
If you catch, or have a disease, after reading this book, don't 
come to me with your troubles (unless you have read this book 
through three times); if you have a disease after that, it is your 
own fault, or that you read it and do not heed. Remember this: 
if you have a disease, that there are other and diverse ways of 
getting rid of a disease than by the orthodox method, a few of 
which I will mention, and they are valuable in the order men- 
tioned: First, know the cause and remove the cause. Second, 
build up your body with healing thoughts — mental therapeutics, 

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osteopathy, including suggestion. Third, magnetic and spiritual 
healing. Fourth, the last and best charm, when your appetite 
fails, take the following prescription: one gallon of pure water 
per day until your appetite returns, shake the water well after it 
is down the ''red lane" by getting a rapid move on yourself. 

TWENTY-FIRST. That surgery and medicine are both 
grand professions in this commercial age. That the latter would 
receive a severe blow if this book was adopted as a text book in 
the public schools throughout the world and the reading public 
would read and HEED it. That judges and lawyers are a nec- 
essary evil in this age of commercialism (the author is a lawyer) 
and in this age of dishonesty, where the people shut the door to 
their great conscience (equity) court within the brain. That the 
time is coming, and it is not far off, when the people will no 
longer require the services of lawyers,- doctors, judges and 
preachers, and when they are no longer required by society, 
they will return to the calling of their fore-fathers — tillers of the 
soil — producers of something. At present, at least, the lawyers, 
in rural communities, are the leading members of society, and 
when they are good, they are very good, and when they are bad, 
they are very bad; they have plenty of opportunities to be either. 
If cHents paid more for advice and counsel, they would have less 
law suits. The only way a lawyer can get a fee out of most of 
his clients is to go into court with the case. The doctors have 
the same experience in this respect as the lawyers. If the pa- 
tient does not receive from the hands of the doctor some 
strong medicine he thinks he has been ''humbugged". The doc- 
tors, to overcome this, give bread pills and rightly too, knowing 
full well that the patient requires no medicine. CHents (law) pay 
your attorney well to look into the case, and oftentmies he will 
tell you it is better to make a poor settlement than to have a 
first-class lawsuit. Judges should be selected during good 
behavior and not one minute longer. 

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TWENTY-SECOND. You learned that the human 
stomach (next to the universe itself) is one of the greatest chem- 
ical laboratories in existence (for its size), and what to do, how 
to think and what to think to live to be five score years, young. 
That education and culture are made up from life's experiences 
and suggestions, and what suggestions to accept and what to 
reject. 

TWENTY-THIRD. You have learned how to attain and 
retain physical beauty; in addition to that, study the Greek school 
of Sappho also, follow the rules laid down herein relating to the 
kidneys. An over-worked kidney will not produce a peachy 
complexion. That kidney diseases are, unfortunately, painless; 
that all pain is nature's w^arning, and one of her greatest 
blessings. 

TWENTY-FOURTH (additional data relating to the eyes). 
Another cause of an early failing eyesight is: persons over forty 
generally increase in fat and flesh at a rapid rate until about 
sixty, during which time the eye sockets fill with fat corpuscles, 
forcing the eye outward (all fat persons are more or less ''bug- 
eyed"), which, after said time, the flesh and fat recedes, letting 
the eye balls sink back deeper into the skull, and during said 
fatty period the fat corpuscles crowd on the optic nerve, affect 
its circulation and impair the sight. At this time the 'Victim'' 
puts on glasses; nature proceeds at once to focus them to his 
eye, resulting in a goggled nose the rest of the person's life, ex- 
cepting in a very large number of cases where persons survive 
the lean period, who have their ''second sight," which act has 
puzzled the dear scientists (?) for a good many centuries. It is 
during this fatty period that a certain number of people go 
blind (people who take on fat suddenly) when the fat accum- 
ulates, which impairs and destroys the optic nerve. No eye 
speciaHst or medical doctor has ever offered any encouragement 
to this class of people relating to the cause and cure! 

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The only remedy for this disease (?) is not to allow a sud- 
den fleshing up; keep the flesh and fat down by a rigid course of 
dieting (unless you prefer to focus your eyes to a goggled nose 
all your life), heretofore set out in this book. This rule holds 
good for all fleshy people, whether the flesh is natural or ac- 
quired. 

All persons who have a constitutional impairment of sight 
(not inherited) should, on perceiving a weakness in their sight, 
proceed at once to take constitutional treatment instead of con- 
sulting a doctor or oculist. There is nothing to hinder them 
from passing the five score mark without the use of glasses, 
providing they never start in to wear them. Writers inform us 
that the secret of longevity is in not worrying, both of which, 
however, are but conditions of the mind. If the writer of this 
book would brand in and across his breast the following motto 
and live up to it, he would not cross the bar before he was one 
hundred years, young: 

KEYNOTE TO THE SUBJECT OF POVERTY. "Con- 
tento hie et elubrus, virtute et labori" (contented here and else- 
where, by virtue and labor); that is, whether you possess one 
dollar or a million. After all, it is only a matter of desire, unfold- 
ment and wisdom. Cannot you enjoy the earth? The million- 
aire has, with sweat, worry, toil and a third of his life thrown 
in, beautified and made it charming by building railroads and 
making the desert bloom with vegetation. If not, why not? 
What is there worth living for outside of health? Can you be 
a millionaire and not worry? If you worry, can you have good 
health? No! Can you be rich without health? Can you be 
beautiful and charming? What does the millionaire get outside 
of his board and clothes? What good is money without an 
appetite? Were you not made to labor and to wait? To work as 
hard as the millionaire? If you did (intelligently) you would 
soon be a millionaire! When you have overcome the love of 

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money you have overcome poverty; add an ounce of wisdom and 
you have overcome disease; all else belongs to you, per se. 

You have learned how to preserve the eyesight without a 
goggled nose, unless you are scrofulous, and how to overcome 
scrofula. You have learned how to retain a good head of hair (a 
golden crown of beauty) in its natural color and quantity, bring 
back the hair on your bald pate (unless you are a woman or an 
Indian; they never get bald) if you are not too lazy and bullet- 
headed to take a suggestion; and you learned that starches con- 
tain no coloring matter (iron), which is one of the main adjuncts 
in retaining the natural color of the hair. 

TWENTY-FIFTH. You have learned how to prevent dy- 
ing of a broken heart and what that means, and to observe the 
smart set and heed some of their examples in various and diverse 
ways (according to your unfoldment). If you are a man, sur- 
round yourself with some of the refinements of life (women al- 
ways do), if it is nothing else but a canary bird or a lily of the 
valley. 

You have learned of various ways to be rich; that it is no 
disgrace to get richer. That it is no disgrace to be poor; that 
it is no disgrace to catch the ''itch," but it is a disgrace to retain 
it; that it is a disgrace to have or catch any disease and a worse 
disgrace to retain it. The cause of poverty and disease is IG- 
NORANCE AND EXTRAVAGANCE, and the cause of riches 
is WISDOM AND ECONOMY; and that both, or all, are 
merely conditions of our mind — of our unfoldment. 

TWENTY-SIXTH. You have learned the cause and cure 
of dyspepsia. That alone is worth the cost of this book. You 
have learned the fate of slaves to doctors and custom relating 
to bathing and the changing of the underclothing; the evil of 
remaining too long on a straight line without a tangent or a 
curve. The persons who bathe and change their underclothing 

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about four times a year rarely die of disease — generally of gun 
play or old (young) age; that in mountainous mining countries 
(or communities) the great difficulty lies in finding a pioneei 
with whom to start a graveyard. It is generally by the rope or 
bullet one is found; rarely by disease. The two principal gar- 
ments that the natives of temperate climates wear is long hair 
and naked feet. They bathe once in a life time and that bath 
generally kills them! That the marriage license is too broad, 
too wide and too modest; it should be restricted fifty per cent. 
That clothing does not make one immodest, nor the lack of it 
make one immodest; either are merely conditions of the mind, 
under strict regulation of orthodox society. That the Indian is 
young at one hundred years, while our bodies tw^o or three 
decades prior to that time are producing flowers and vegeta- 
tion. That it is better to be a healthy Indian than a stoop- 
shouldered, bow-legged, bald-headed, goggled nosed white (?) 
man. That fifty years more of our civilization (?) will kill all 
the Indians that ''touch" it. That if the noble four hundred 
would have less ''pink teas" and more tenting and studying the 
lives and habits of our fast decaying race of Indians, they would 
do more to improve humanity. After all, Victor Trevitt was 
right in choosing the "Mamaloose" (Indian burying ground); 
he was honest, modest and a thinker. 

TWENTY-SEVENTH. That the two principal causes of 
premature deafness are violent noises (explosions, Fourth of 
July fireworks and catarrh — rotten sew^er; the former should 
have been abandoned fifty years ago; the latter would have been 
abandoned two thousand years ago if it had not been for the 
orthodoxy and physicians, but should be abandoned immediately 
after reading this book; otherwise, the reader had better take 
a long pull at the black bottle. You have learned the cause of and 
cure for the catarrh and the cause and cure of any kind of old 
piles; the cure being to remove the cause! That in this disease 

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the death atomites change into millions of small worms in a 
rotten, stagnant bowel, and how, in time, this condition changes 
to appendicitis, of which you have learned the cause, equal to the 
cure! That the sudden changes in habit and diet (prematurely) 
kill most of the old (?) people; hereafter they should know 
better! 

And that the graduating day is the beginning of education, 
the beginning of life's experiences, life's suggestions — kinder- 
garten of life, all of which we weave into our character (aided by 
memory) and is all we possess and retain when we arrive at our 
trysting place in the great constellation of intelligences. That the 
public schools should teach more of the cause of diseases and 
less of regimentals. That the sectarian schools should teach 
more DEEDS and less CREEDS. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH. You have learned something— 
a good deal — that is not of orthodoxy, and you will expect me to 
say something of destiny. I, at this time, believe that the great 
frame work of Hfe was laid out for us from our beginning here 
on this earth. That we, the instruments, are played upon by 
the unseen (unseen by all excepting those persons with clair- 
voyant sight) forces of the universe — intelHgences that have, at 
some time, occupied this earth or some other planet, and that 
those forces guide the planetary system and through the two 
we do our shifting and drifting throughout the tragedy of life, 
our kindergarten HERE, and that about all we can do here is 
work out the details, round out our lives to some ideal — ideal of 
beauty if possible, or an ideal of GOODNESS. We all can 
find one or the other here if we honestly strive for it, and when 
we find it, earth will be more like heaven (figuratively speaking) 
than before. You attract your kind, which makes life more 
worth living and alleviates our pathway to the tomb. That 
death, rightly understood, is one of the greatest blessings of 
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That the record of a thought has never been discovered on 
the dissecting table. That all the unsolved mysteries (?) of the 
universe are brushed aside by the orthodox people as emanating 
from God! That's a nice, easy way, but it proves nothing! 
That don't suit the most of us; (those from old Missouri) re- 
quire the proof in seeing it. What is inspiration? Nothing 
more or less than being influenced, under certain conditions, by 
extraneous intelHgences (living or dead) (?) — spiritual prophecy, 
which is more valuable to 'mankind — that is, nominally inspira- 
tion — than the sciences. You have learned something of hea- 
thenism (?), Orientalism compared to Occidentalism. You have 
learned the benefit of the idle (?) class (men and women of wealth 
who devote their lives to the benefit of humanity), setting a 
higher mental, physical and spiritual standard for those who 
plod (we all play our part in the tragedy of life), when they shall 
arrive at their stage of unfoldment and condition of life to enjoy. 
That any kind of an old smart set is better than a non-thinker 
set. 

TWENTY-NINTH. That the "book worm," parrot, non- 
thinker and the pessimist (unless he is an agitator — has some- 
thing better to offer) should be allowed to live only on proba- 
tion. That nature abhors a vacuum, an idle person. That the 
cure for the parasites (idlers) lies in the betterment of the in- 
dividual or in the black bottle. That every child born calls for 
a new rule for raising children. That every person in the uni- 
verse is more or less mediumistic, consciously or unconsciously 
— that isj a messenger, (angel) for good or bad. That there are 
as many different kinds of mediums in the universe as there are 
people that are played upon by the unseen forces of the universe 
and manifest in as many different ways. 

That persons (not school ma'ams) who never assumed the 
responsibilities of parenthood, write and give out the most ad- 
vice on how to train and raise children. That every thing in the 

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domain of nature has its enemy and also its mode oi protection, 
and almost any old dog has a better smeller than man; that the 
eyeless mole can discount us in hearing, and you learned how 
to regulate the number of children in the family, without in- 
fringing upon a law of nature, by a close observation of the 
four footed animal kingdom. After all, in such matters, the 
mother should have the first and last say; it should be a personal 
privilege with her unless they are rich. No family should have 
less than four. Barrenness or tuberculosis, known and con- 
cealed by either side, should be ground for a decree of divorce. 
That relating to our American (?) marrying of titled noblemen, it 
should be a personal privilege, too, in which the mother and 
father of the daughter should have the first say, but the daughter 
should have the last say; all others should be ''barred'' out. 

THIRTIETH. You have learned all about consumption 
in all its forms, its cause and cure, and how to tell a consumptive 
(consumptively inclined person) by his hands, feet, head, face 
and body; the cure being constitutional treatment, beginning 
with the cradle and ending with the grave. 

That the nearer the eye is to the brain, the better; a sunken 
eye is better than a ''bug-onion" eye. That the longer the dis- 
tance below a line drawn from the brow to the outermost portion 
of the rear brain to the hole in the ear, indicates the length of 
life on a basis of twenty-five years to the fourth inch; this rule 
indicates the normal or natural vitality. We, to a certain extent, 
shorten or lengthen our lives by the manner in which we think 
and live. 

THIRTY-FIRST— INDIAN SCHOOLS. This subject 
has not been heretofore treated. Our government deserves a 
sound spanking for kidnaping the Indian child (of either sex), 
forcing them, tearing them from their mothers, a long distance 
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change of habits, to some school (?) in another state; and this, 
too, under a Christian government, forgetting the fact that mo- 
therhood is just as sacred to the Indian mother as any other mo- 
ther. Yes, and even more so, often resulting m a broken- 
hearted death by grief; in many cases never seeing her child 
again (in this life) until he is returned home a corpse, with 
quick consumption. If he survives the sudden change of habits 
and ''touch'' of our civilization, it is then, ofttimes, even worse. 
A few do survive the feather bed, ''biled shirts,'' our crazy mix- 
ture of foods, steam heated rooms and venereal diseases, nec- 
essary (?) evil adjuncts of our modern college (?) life (lewd 
women will get as near to a college as the law will allow), after 
which (if he is a boy) he is either too good or too bad for the 
society of his good and pure-minded relatives and the members 
of his tribe. The Indians are decreasing at a rapid rate. One 
hundred years of our Christian benevolent assimilation is doing 
the work. 

THIRTY-SECOND. When you want to make a rapid 
cure of typhoid fever (or any other kind of an old fever), cleanse 
the sewer of fever; follow by feeding the patient on raw, finely 
ground onions alone and apply the same in large amounts ex- 
ternally in the form of a poultice over the bowels (no atomites 
of death can stand a raw onion), and this is an excellent rem- 
edy (diet) for people troubled with nervous prostration (in in- 
ward fever, an excited brain), preventing sleep. Eating an abun- 
dance of vegetables and their juices (raw) will ward off most 
any disease, including tuberculosis. 

THIRTY-THIRD. Getting back to the Indian: God bless 
the motherhood of Portland, Oregon! They realize, understand 
and agree with the author about the passing of the Indian, and, 
as a result, that beautiful monument to Sacajawea, a mother, and 
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the Oregon — beaver — country), nobly assisted by Brothers Tom 
Benton and Tom Jefferson (great souls), who were mstrumental 
in blazing the pathw^ay and gateway to the Orient, which has 
three gates (Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; San Fran- 
cisco, California — slightly disfigured by fire and earthquake — 
but proudly and grandly ''still in the ring"). I had almost for- 
gotten our beautiful sister city, Tacoma, Washington — fourth, 
w^hich, backed by their rich soil and varied resources and clim- 
ate, will e'er long produce more population to the square mile 
(in proportion to their age) than any other part of the United 
States. British Columbia, too, will be an important factor 
along those lines. We need a few more Portland mothers in ev- 
ery state in this Union — mothers to perpetuate the record of our 
fast decaying Indian tribes. 

The abstract of title to most of the lands in the United 
States might pass muster in most of our courts of law and 
equity; but there lies an appeal to a higher court (a con- 
science court) in the glittering constellations of eternity that will, 
I fear, affix its seal and certificate as being a title both in law 
and equity. 

THIRTY-FOURTH. You have learned the cause of 
silent suicides that the dear ones attribufte to ill health, and the 
cause of our fat lunatic asylums, which is, primarily, ignorance 
"on the part of the parents relating to the laws of excess in eat- 
ing and sleeping, with heating the spine (brain) in occupation 
and thinking. 

You have learned the cause and the (medical) lemedy for 
Bright's disease of the kidney (heretofore unknown); that means 
something! You have learned something out of the ordinary 
about CRIMINOLOGY and a good deal about the subject of 
MARRIAGE; how to choose a companion for life and that nei- 
ther is to choose one until each is satisfied that they can be their 
own ancestors. 

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You have learned some of the duties of the FOOL- 
KILLER: how to be one and how to escape him; the benefit 
he is to society; the difference between losing and retaining 
your individuality and that liberty is better than riches. That 
it is better to have a good name than a political office; that it is 
hard to have both. That it is worth double the price to boss 
the job. 

THIRTY-FIFTH. That orthodoxy, medical doctors, pat- 
ent medicines, high wines for medical purposes, ancestorship, 
motherhood and the individual all hinder and delay millenium 
in every thing (that means temperance). The reformation 
should begin the wedding day and end in the multi-colored 
dome of eternity. During gestation let the mother have every- 
thing that the appetite longs for in the way of food and drink 
(including spirituous and malt liquors), gratify her every wish so 
far as possible under the circumstances, excepting during said 
time there must be a mutual dead line between the husband and 
wife. That is the reason aforesaid, why, unless a man cannot live 
without a woman (sexually), he ought not to marry; neither 
should a woman, and both should have full control of their ap- 
petites and passions — that is, on an equality with the four- 
footed animals and the birds); otherwise, by law they should 
not be allowed to marry, for millions of children are born with 
unbridled appetites and passions, which are worse to overcome 
than the liquor habit. People should be fully competent to be 
their own ancestors before they are allowed to marry. 

THIRTY-SIXTH. The child should be taught to be tem- 
perate in everything at home as well as in the public schools. The 
mother, by law, should have the right to vote, and each and ev- 
ery other right equal with her husband, and she should 
have the sacred, sole and exclusive right, control and full juris- 
diction of her person, and she will be put in possession of those 
rights when hide-bound creeds and orthodoxy shall be no more; 

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when the people shall follow Christ in DEEDS not CREEDS. 
Who wrought the change in womanhood in the last fifty years? 
Who brought her out of slavery? Who gave her the personal 
privilege of earning her livelihood at any calling, equal with her 
master (?) man? Who taught her that there was something 
else in life besides marriage? That in the natural order of 
events (a few girls could be spared from marriage) there would 
be soldiers enough to do all the killing (of their brother man) 
that was necessary! That when she was eighteen she had either 
to marry (any old thing) or leave home and earn her livelihood 
as a pot-washer in some rich man's kitchen, instead of having 
equal chances with her brother in the office and counting house! 
Was it orthodoxy and creeds that brought about this change? 
No! It was thinkers, NON-CONFORMISTS! Spirituahsts 
(deedists) have done more for the emancipation of women dur- 
ing the last fifty years than the creeds have done in the last 
eighteen hundred years. Woman has not found her level yet. 
In the name of what is sacred, why are we afraid to trust our 
mothers? Woman will find her level (a little more than equal 
with man) in the next decade. You need not be afraid to trust 
our government in the hands of motherhood! 

THIRTY-SEVENTH. That to overcome poverty you 
must overcome disease; that to overcome either you must pa- 
tronize the free library (a sectarian free library beats nothing all 
to pieces; if you want the best books go to the non-sectarian 
library). That knowledge is power to overcome poverty and 
disease. That the time spent in ''howling" about millionaires 
IS wasted; tender them your heart-felt sympathy, and if you are 
silly enough to desire to follow their footsteps, you have the 
same opportunities: all their lives a sacrifice! You have learned 
how to become a millionaire; will that satisfy you? 

You have learned the cause and cure for leprosy and can- 
cers. That if you must have drugs, nature has thousands of 

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drug stores, for she is the greatest storehouse in the universe: 
her drugs bubble out of the ground, hot or cold (her mineral 
springs), and I venture to say that they will cure the worst dis- 
eases (including leprosy and scrofula) if the person will only roll 
in the mud and drink the water long enough. Seven years is 
long enough to do the work. There are sixty-three (hot) min- 
eral springs in a body in Linn County, Oregon. You do not have 
to go to "Arkansaw" now to be cured; and there are hundreds 
of other first-class springs scattered along the Pacific Coast. 

THIRTY-EIGHTH. You have learned that to eat break- 
fast foods means a fat doctor and dentist. You have learned 
something about colds that was a revelation to you. You have 
learned why you should take off your hat to a pioneer, whether 
he be a thinker, pathfinder, homebuilder or a society builder. 
You have learned the effect of sudden anger upon the human 
organism; the cause (equal to the cure) of pneumonia and 
diphtheria, and how you and yours can steer clear of them dur- 
ing your natural lives. You have learned something out of the 
ordinary about spinal meningitis, its cause and cure; read it. 

THIRTY-NINTH— THE BIBLE. This is the greatest 
book on earth and the least understood. Its true value lies in its 
history and prophecies. Its prophecies were as good and true 
(but no better) than the prophecies we are getting today, all 
being but little understood in this commercial age, when people 
do not stop money-getting long enough to think until centuries 
after the prophet has been doing his work for humanity, he be- 
ing (on both sides of life) one of the unseen forces that guide 
and shape the higher and ethical part of humanity. Understand- 
ing prophecies, ancient and modern, is all a matter of spiritual, 
not mental, unfoldment. Prophecy is like oratory; you must 
feel it to understand it. The non-spiritualized understand proph- 
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them their true interpretation. How few ministers of the Gospel 
understand them! And with what unction they preach them 
from a literal standpoint! The names of such philosophers and 
thinkers as Henry Ward Beecher, Goldwin Smith and Doctor 
Newell Dwight Hillis (and many others too numerous to men- 
tion) are dear and always will remain dear to those who are 
honest thinkers and reasoners. Such mental and spiritual giants 
have risen above the pulpit and pew. The smaller ''fry'' (min- 
isters, parrots, ''harpies'') will soon fall in line with these giants 
throughout the rural communities of the world; they have been 
waiting for a leader or leaders. Beecher silenced the devil and 
hell theory! 

I cannot refrain from mentioning the honored name of the 
Rev. Stephen S. Wise, late of Portland, Oregon, but now of New 
York City, as being fully equal with the three names above 
mentioned. Dr. Wise has risen far above his environments, and 
for his age is easily the head master thinker of the United 
States. He, too, has left the pulpit and pew out of sight; you 
can't church him either as a heretic! Such minds understand the 
Bible and ancient prophecies as well as modern prophecies; 
minds like theirs reach out into space, study the language of the 
planets, their efifects upon the earth and upon mankind. We 
cannot get away from the fact that astrology is a great science 
(ancient and modern); every minister in the universe should be 
a first-class astrologist. By astrology he can read and interpret 
all the ancient and modern prophecies. He should also under- 
stand the unseen (?) forces of the universe — forces that play 
(when rightly understood) an important part in the affairs of 
mortals. The historical part of the Bible contains the only true 
status of our race. The pew (people) are studying astrology, 
prophecies (modern) and the unseen (?) forces, and is it not 
about time the pulpit was taking a hand along those lines? 

FORTIETH— CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AND VAC- 

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CINATON. The penalty for a physician who will vaccinate a 
scrofulous person (young or old) or who will vaccinate any per- 
son excepting with pure bovine virus, should be ten years in a 
striped suit at hard labor. Matter taken from the scab of a scrof- 
ulous person will taint a healthy person with scrofula (provided 
the person is vaccinated with it) for generations to come; and 
the pure bovine virus will often kill a scrofulous person, in which 
event a law compelling an indiscriminate vaccination is an out- 
rage on humanity. Vaccination has done a lot of good; it will 
do a good deal of good yet so long as the dear people will re- 
main in ignorance. No person ever ''caught" a contagious dis- 
ease without first having a hotbed of disease within himself — 
that is, without a filthy, rotten sewer within himself, or had 
passed below the zero mark with excesses. This rule holds good 
of la grippe, too. Only one person out of a hundred knows 
when he has good health until some time after he is dead 
(?). Persons who desire good health must be constantly on 
their guard, know themselves and watch themselves. The way to 
overcome contagious diseases is by correct living. When con- 
tagious diseases disappear, vale vaccination. 

FORTY-FIRST. I doubt not you learned something about 
heart disease that surprised you. You learned how to tell a 
paralytic before he is aflfected by his habits and general appear- 
ance, and the cause of this disease, plus the cure. You have 
learned something of Egyptian philosophy and a great deal 
about dreams. Young man, read that! You have learned that 
all the new isms are good — that is, they all contain something 
good, and that it is your duty to retain the good and discard the 
bad. 



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THE INEVITABLE. 

I like the man who faces what he must 

With step triumphant and with heart of cheer; 

Who fights the daily battles without fear; 

Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust 

That God is good; that somehow, true and just, 

His plans work out for mortals; not a tear 

Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, 

Falls from his grasp — better with love a crust 

Than living in dishonor — envies not 

Nor loses faith in man, but does his best. 

Nor ever murmur at his humbler lot; 

But with a smile and words of hope, gives zest 

To every toiler; he alone is great 

Who by a life heroic conquers fate. 

— Sarah K. Bolton. 

COURAGE. 

Out of the night that covers me 

Black as the pit from pole to pole, 

I thank whatever gods there be 

For my unconquerable soul. 

In the full clutch of circumstance, 

I have not winced or cried aloud. 

Under the bludgeonings of chance 

My head is bloody, but unbowed. 

Beyond this vale of wrath and tears 

Lurks but the horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of years 

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. 

It matters not how straight the gate, 

How charged with punishments the scroll; 

I am master of my fate, 

I am captain of my soul. 

— Hanley. 
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PHILOSOPHY.-^UGGESTIONS BRIEFED. 

Man must first be a reader, dreamer and thinker before he 
can become a philosopher. 

We can unfold, develop and bring out the grand and noble 
in us (every person in the universe has more or less good) by re- 
laxing — letting go, as it were — ceasing to be too anxious. 

All pubHc schools, colleges, of whatsoever kind and nature, 
should at once be turned into kindergartens for the reception of 
all ages and classes; we then would be able to learn what each 
individual, young or old, was adapted for — a hod-carrier or a 
lawyer; the pupils graduating therefrom would then have a 
hobby or an ideal — something to live for. What we want is 
something to unfold the natural ability, whatever that may be, 
instead of stuffing the child with scores of things which are ob- 
noxious to the child and does it very little good in its struggle 
for existence. All children radiate the past of their clan for one 
thousand years back and are laying the foundation for their clan 
for a thousand years to come. Plutarch attended the first kin- 
dergarten we read of. To flog a child in that school (?) meant 
almost death. It should now. There were no Puritans in those 
days. 

The Indian knew how to preserve his meat, fish and vege- 
tables — drying them in the hot sum and eating them dry. It is 
a pity that civilization (?) is devoid of common sense! 

Heat is life; cold is death. All cold foods and liquids taken 
into the stomach produce no nourishing efifect until they come to 
a condition of blood heat. 

The only life-force (stored energy) in man is this con- 

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densed and stored sunshine; the man who has the most of this 
substance, has the most vitality. 

There is no such thing as ''law breakers'' — breaking the 
law; men do not and cannot break the law: they can and do 
break themselves on the law. 

The difference between reputation and character is: the for- 
mer we use between sunrise and sunset; the latter between 
sunset and sunrise. 

What you get at the expense of your reputation comes high. 

It takes a life time to build up a reputation, but you can 
lose it in five minutes. 

Character is the only thing that counts in the kindergarten 
of God. 

Man is a delicately-organized machine — a powerful storage 
battery. His normal or equilibrium is when these life-forces are 
equal; when below the zero mark they can be supplied by 
another person, overcharged, and w^hen above zero they can sup- 
ply the deficiency to others. 

This all-pervading energy and life-force is supplied and 
regulated for our intellectual needs by and through an intel- 
lectual fountain of divinity, which we can only know by feeling 
same and which must be accomiplished by and through a spirit- 
ual understanding, w^hich will be better understood in a decade 
from now. 

All the wild and untutored races (two or four-footed), ex- 
cepting civilized (?) man, unconsciously use their intuitive (?) 
knowledge, through which they understand how to use and con- 
serve the life forces by and through the unseen (?) forces of the 
universe operating through the law of appetite and suggestion, 
etc. 

From too sudden a change from heat to cold, people catch 

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colds; the change is too sudden for nature to overcome; give her 
time and she will temper you to your environments. The quan- 
tity and quality of the cold depends upon the condition of your 
human sewer. 

Man is not the highest order of physical Hfe; remove the 
claw from the crab and nature will furnish him with another, 
pretty fair claw, too; take a joint from the jointed snake and the 
joint will grow another complete snake, and the same rule will 
hold good of the tape worm. Operate on man in this manner 
and what would become of him? 

And, too, the flesh of man is not so delicate an article of 
diet as the turtle, which contains more than a half dozen different 
kinds of meat, with each kind having a separate and distinct 
flavor — a flavor of beef, mutton, pork, fish, etc. 

Even the turkey, catfish and jack rabbit have white and 
black meat, each with their different flavors. 

There is a true kinship between persons who enter the 
slumbering chaimber of divinity — chamber of silence — without 
which none can become great. 

Sunshine — heat — stored and unstored, is the source of all 
life — is life itself — and is the source from which nature receives 
all her energy, stored and unstored. 

The only nourishment received by the animal kingdom 
(four-footed) from vegetation is its heat — stored sunshine — 
energy, all else of the vegetable kingdom is waste. 

Separate the stored sunshine (energy) from lean meats (fat 
meats are stored sunshine within themselves) and you have 
nothing left but waste. 

The longer time elapsing between the death of the 
slaughtered animal and the consumption of the meat, the less 
energy it has; and the less time, the more energy. 

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To get the most benefit from stored sunshine one must eat 
all vegetables raw, as a large part of their energy is lost in the 
cooking. 

All foods of whatsoever kind and nature, passing through 
the frozen or refrigerator stage, are divested of the most of the 
energy, but become more tender. 

The problem of the universe is to find the dividing line 
which separates destiny (fate) from free will. 

The more acquaintance I have with women, the more I love 
solitude. 

The more acquaintance I have with men, the better I like 
the four-footed animals and birds. 

The more acquaintance I have with the ''inner" workings of 
society, the better I like the society of Indians and the fishes 
that sport and swim below the blue waters of the sea. 

The purest part of society is the children and the old 
(young) maids. 

The more I learn of the inner workings of judges, lawyers, 
doctors and preachers, the more I favor a national fool-killer. 

The pulpit (priesthood) has ruled for eighteen hundred 
years; but from now on until the circles end, the pew (people) 
will rule. 

We are all a mixture of good and bad; the question is to 
find the dividing line or zero mark. 

Every normal individual is a combination of both sexes 
about equally divided; the question is to find the dividing line 
or zero mark. 

The only true, pure and unadulterated love on this earth is 
where the lovers never marry: the Dante and Beatrice kind; the 

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next grade is found in Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood — before mar- 
rying they waited about twenty years for their parents' consent. 

In the natural order of things attraction is the cause and love 
the effect, resulting in the propagation of the species; this is true 
in atom or planet. Love, as it is known and practiced by so- 
ciety, is more than three-fourths comimercial lust! 

The only distinguishing difference between a man and a hog 
is the difference in the number of feet. 

Sleep and death are states of unconsciousness ; in the former 
you awake at the bidding of the solar plexus, subconscious (mo- 
ther God) mind, warning you to take nourishment to sustain 
the vital functions of the body; and in the latter, the body being 
polluted by disease or injured, the spirit frees itself from the body 
and returns from whence it came — the great ether ocean of life 
and intelHgence. It is then a transparent counterpart of our- 
selves — that is, transparent to all persons with a clairvoyant 
sight (unseen by others but not unfelt when they surround 
themselves with the proper conditions), where it evolves in time 
(according to the intelligence here) to its ideals. One's destiny 
is regulated by one's desires; in your first advent there, your 
condition will be the same as your last advent here. The only 
thing you have gained by your advent on earth is: formerly you 
were an ego (atolm) — that is, prior to conception; while after 
birth you are an ego (man); after death (?) you will be a med- 
ium^ — messenger between the higher intelligence (God) or an 
earth-bound (evil) spirit; or, according to the orthodox, an angel 
or a devil. 

Women breathe above the belt and men below the belt. 

You will never know anything about destiny or immortality 
unless you feel it. 

Knocking a great man stimulates him and makes him 
greater. 

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A monist is one who rounds out and beautifies the great 
frame-work of life, of which he is not the architect or builder, 
into a castle of hope — day dreaims — heaven, now and here. 

What the world calls our faults are, when rightly under- 
stood, our virtues. 

The gravely happy are the happiest. Death makes life worth 
living. 

There is more in knowing what to do than how to do it. 

Deliver us from our friends; we can watch our foes. The 
greater the man, the fewer his friends, because they do not un- 
derstand him. 

Only one man in a million can understand a very great man. 

The great man wants nothing but life and health; he pos- 
sesses everything else. 

By evolving a religion from our inner consciousness we 
make one less impostor. 

The proper time for a young man to make a start m life is 
now, and the proper place is here. 

We gain strength by overcoming. Hell is a friendless 
condition. 

The number of good people in a state determines its 
religion. 

Every person on the earth is a judge of a court of equity — 
conscience. 

An optimist is one who has work; a pessimist is one who 
has not. 

Great men are discovered by their enemies. 

Think about what you have^ not about what you don't have. 

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Friendships and credits are preserved by non-use. 

A great man is greater than his government.' 

All is fate or free will. 

A man who loses faith in humanity (unless he lose faith in 
himself) still has something to live for. 

The proper place for reformation is deep down in one's own 
consciousness. 

Great teachers teach by precept. 

There is nothing that succeeds like success. 

Let rulers settle their own quarrels. 

When the great peace court at The Hague has government 
behind it to enforce its decrees, war will cease and not until then. 

Great men are slandered by people who do not know them. 

Everything is a grist that comes to a wise man's mill. 

A man who doubts humanity cannot be a Christian. 

We can reasonably expect a person who returns to the wild 
will live to be over one hundred years, young. 

Returning to the wild is to our trysting place when our 
forefathers lived pastoral lives — natural lives. 

Every person in the universe is naturally wild, and a good 
many others are the real thing! We are all more than one-half 
wild. 

After sixty we all like to own a ''bit" of land, whether we 
live on it or not. 

The question is to find the dividing line between the wild 
and the tame part of us. 

It is natural to be good; unnatural to be bad. 

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About one-third of the lives of everybody in the universe 
is good — that is, when they are asleep. 

Nothing is wasted in the great chemical laboratory of the 
universe; she reduces everything to its component parts and 
wastes nothing. 

In my creed is the motherhood of God. 

To those who believe in the immortality of life these lines 
by Mary Applewhite Bacon will be consoling: 

Gray twilight on the sea and on the land; 

The time of stars not yet, and day's sweet sky 

Bereft of sun as heart of heart's supply. 

Slow pacing still the melancholy strand, 

''O let me live," I wept, 'let me die — 

Escape this death in life!" Then one drew nigh. 

''The fool's word — death," he said and took me by the 

hand ; 
And e'er I was aware, on alien land, 'neath alien skies, 
I stood, and knew it mine. 
Awful and drear, a land of time and sense. 
Of windflower on the rock and forests dense, 
Sun-radiant heights and human eyes' soft shine; 
Where heart might love, hands labor, souls divine, 
Flesh veiled, new splendors of omnipotence. 



PERORATION— FINALE. 

In passing, dear reader, you have found that health means 
all there is to live for. That you cannot be charming and at- 
tractive in your manners and ways without it — in other words, 
you cannot be natural, without which it is almost impossible lo 
be a true lady or gentleman; it is pretty hard to act what you 

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do not feel! And, in children, it means little, fat, dimpled cheeks 
and hands, and chubby bare feet of health, instead of nurses, 
doctors, ministers, white flowers and little white coffins. To par- 
ents it means children, grand children and great-grand children. 
What more can you ask for or desire? That the marriage day is 
the proper time to lay the foundation of health, happiness and 
ancestorship. That the marriage day and motherhood are il- 
lumed with letters of gold on the great register — dial plate of 
time — destiny! Too high and sacred for man-made laws to 
reach or break! That health overcomes poverty; that it 
lies within the reach of all — all who will make a little sacrifice, 
which pays a thousand-fold. What of your character, the golden 
chain of life — souFs memory? That true picture of yourself that 
radiates and effervesces from your mind and body? That which 
you take with you to the meeting-place of worlds! That chain 
you forged in the kindergarten of life's experiences, link by link, 
from babyhood! Is your character beautiful or otherwise? Were 
your thoughts of lust, gold, malice, jealousy, hatred, envy and 
selfishness? Or were they winged with forked lightning to unveil 
the mysteries of the stars and spheres — ^all that lies below the 
borderland of the universe? If so, they were of love to humanity, 
sympathy and compassion for the fallen and down-trodden, irre- 
spective of religion, race or color. 

What of your words? Were they tuned, shaded and timed 
to the swing, color and music of the Pleiades? Were they a halo 
of hope and cheerfulness in the family circle and in the chain of 
the brotherhood of man? What of your acts and deeds? Did 
you do something or say something each day to make you feel 
that society had been benefited for you having lived that day? 
Did you do anything to beautify the earth or unfold humanity? 
What have been your hopes and day dreams? Well springs of 
the soul? Were they of the earth or were they ethical 
and spiritual? Did they flare Hke a meteor of ethereal colors 

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and brightness that radiates and sparkles in the morning, at 
noon and in the midnight sky, in the valley, forest and field, on 
the mountain crest and behind the prison bars? What of your 
past? Did it rise before you, at times, Hke a hideous specter 
and cloud the horizon of your memory? Did it drive you to the 
dark river of oblivion? Did hope rise again from the spark of 
divinity within you? Or was it from the unseen (?) universal 
forces — planetary? 

Are you ready for the rending of the veil which separates 
you from the missing links (dear ones), from life's golden chain 
of destiny — to meet them and greet them, and together love and 
vibrate in the great nebula of star dust, the trysting place of hu- 
manity — the dial-plate of individuality? Finally, when you arrive 
at the circles' end and cycles' end, will your soul effervesce with 
the sweetest perfumes of the earth and ether worlds? Flare with 
the hues of the rainbow and the purple and gold of the autumn 
twilight — permeate, radiate and sparkle in your niche, in the 
veiled, tri-colored dome of eternity? 



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